Emma field cricket
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The Emma field cricket can stretch its neck and turn its head.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Emma field cricket
- Scientific name
- Teleogryllus emma
- Japanese name
- エンマコオロギ
- Group
- Insects
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Gryllidae
- Genus
- Teleogryllus
A cricket of low grassland and farm fields, often found under straw and dead grass.
Its body is blackish brown, and its face has a pale, eyebrow-like marking.
It sings a lovely 'koro-koro-ree'. Its song changes when it calls a female or fights another male.
How the Emma field cricket lives
Females lay eggs in the soil, and the eggs remain there through winter. Nymphs hatch from the eggs in early summer. Nymphs become adults from summer to early autumn. For a while after becoming adults, they fly and gather at lights.
国土交通省 太田川河川事務所Basic data
- Size
- Body length: 17–31 mm
- Diet
- Mainly animal matter
- Range
- Central and southern Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu
Where the Emma field cricket has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 国土交通省 太田川河川事務所 — 太田川生物誌 エンマコオロギChecked: 2026-11-03
- 守山市 — 美崎公園とその周辺の自然（バッタのなかま）Checked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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