Pygmy Mole Cricket. Tridactylidae a floodplain specialist of the ponto mediterranean region. Mole crickets are not closely related to the pygmy mole crickets the tridactyloidea which are in the grasshopper suborder caelifera rather than the cricket suborder ensifera.
Their subterranean burrows extend 2 3 centimeters below the surface and females create brood chambers at the bottom of their tunnels. Their front legs are modified for digging and their back legs. Pygmy mole crickets which are also known as pygmy sand crickets or pygmy mole grasshoppers apparently ingest sand particles and whatever algae and other organic matter adheres to them.
Like other types of mole crickets pygmy mole crickets tridactylidae make their homes in underground burrows.
Their subterranean burrows extend 2 3 centimeters below the surface and females create brood chambers at the bottom of their tunnels. Tridactylidae a floodplain specialist of the ponto mediterranean region. Through successive moults the nymphs develop wings buds until their final moult into a mature adult with fully developed number of. Although they burrow like other mole crickets they are actually much different.
