Acheta domesticus

TaxID: 6997

Basic Information

Acheta domesticus

House Cricket, house cricket

Acheta domesticus, commonly called the house cricket, is a species of cricket most likely native to Southwestern Asia, but between 1950 and 2000 it became the standard feeder insect for the pet and research industries and spread worldwide. They can be kept as pets themselves, as this has been the case in China and Japan.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Orthoptera

Gryllidae

Acheta

domesticus

nan

Photos (0 photos)

No photos available.

Morphological Features

Head brown with two variable testaceous bands. Frons and clypeus dark with a light central mushroom-shaped marking on the frons. Head yellowish-brown with two broad dark bands, one on the occiput and one between the eyes. Pronotum with a characteristic pattern of three dark triangular markings. In males, tegmina cover two-thirds of the abdomen and contain four harp veins. Posterior tibia armed with eleven spines on the basal side.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Iraq Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —

Distribution (73 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

73
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Algeria Present —
United Arab Emirates Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Belarus Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_014858955.1 Contig 929 1 1 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR7692603 whole insect adult female 11277632 USA
SRR22200957 dorsal longitudinal muscle - female 22891445 not collected
SRR22200956 dorsal longitudinal muscle - female 22561355 not collected

DNA Barcodes (159 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
UNI37077-17 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 544 United States 2016-10-28 32.748, -117.165
UNI37049-16 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 640 United States 2016-05-08 32.716, -117.161
MSWEC142-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 548 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
MSWEC141-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 585 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
MSWEC140-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 614 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
MSWEC139-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 576 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
MSWEC137-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 576 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
MSWEC119-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 530 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
MSWEC118-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 585 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
MSWEC116-15 BOLD:AAJ7534 COI-5P 577 Canada 2015-02-11 43.528, -80.229
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Literature