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Jamaican field cricket, Gryllus assimilis (Fabricius, 1775) (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) is distributed throughout the Caribbean and southern USA. Like other crickets, this species can be viewed as a pest for entering homes and producing a loud mating call that can be quite annoying. This hemimetabolous (incomplete metamorphosis: egg, nymph, adult) can be easily mass-produced in colony and harvested for use as a food or feed product.
Classification
Gryllus assimilis
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Class | Insecta |
| Order | Orthoptera |
| Family | Gryllidae |
| Genus | Gryllus |
| Species | G. assimilis |
| Author citation | (Fabricius, 1775) |
| Common name | jamaican field cricket |