Desert-inhabitant
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Gryllus longicercus
Long-cercus Field Cricket
Gryllus longicercus is a field cricket species described in 2019, notable for possessing the longest known cerci in the genus Gryllus. It represents the first New World cricket to have its genome fully assembled and annotated, with a 1.85 Gb genome containing 19,715 transcripts from 14,789 gene models. The species inhabits rocky desert landscapes and exhibits characteristic acoustic communication typical of field crickets.