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Trigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets

Trigonidiidae · 5 species

In Québec, the family Trigonidiidae (order Orthoptera) counts 5 species of insects. The stars? Carolina Ground Cricket, Striped Ground Cricket and Allard's Ground Cricket, the most often observed. The richest region: Capitale-Nationale, with 3 species. Every species has its own page: photos, its sounds, its season, its habitat and the best places to see it near you.

Species observed by region

Where do the observations come from?

  • Mostly iNaturalist : photos taken by people all over Québec, with the species confirmed by the community.
  • Other public sources : such as eBird for birds and the provincial forest inventories, gathered by GBIF, the global biodiversity data network.
  • What we keep : confirmed observations, with an exact position (not blurred to protect a rare species), that their author allows to be reused.
  • One place counts once : several observations of the same species at the same spot (within 11 m) count as one.
  • So our numbers are lower : than iNaturalist’s total. A region without observations does not mean the species does not live there.

Data downloaded in September 2026.

  1. Capitale-Nationale3
  2. Estrie3
  3. Montréal3
  4. Laurentides3
  5. Montérégie3
  6. Outaouais2
  7. Abitibi-Témiscamingue2
  8. Chaudière-Appalaches2
  9. Lanaudière2
  10. Bas-Saint-Laurent1
  11. Laval1

Trigs, Sword-tailed Crickets, and Ground Crickets 5

Orthoptera
All4,550Lepidoptera2,108Coleoptera1,199Hemiptera482Hymenoptera230Diptera210Odonata151Orthoptera61Trichoptera35Ephemeroptera23Neuroptera21Mecoptera9Blattodea7Plecoptera7Dermaptera4Mantodea2Phasmida1
Trigonidiidae
All61Acrididae27Tettigoniidae15Tetrigidae5Trigonidiidae5Oecanthidae4Gryllidae3Rhaphidophoridae2
Carolina Ground Cricket61 observations
Striped Ground Cricket40 observations
Allard's Ground Cricket11 observations
Sphagnum Ground Cricket9 observations
Gray Ground CricketAllonemobius griseus