Family Hump-winged Crickets (Prophalangopsidae)

Great Grig

Cyphoderris monstrosa

Identification: male dark gray dorsally, pale whitish ventrally, with short wings humped up and wrinkled like a loosely-folded blanked heaped on the insect's back; male subgenital plate with a ventrally-directed process shaped like the nail-pulling c

Sagebrush Grig

Cyphoderris strepitans

Often seen sitting on tree trunks, old logs, or fence posts. Seems most common at the high points of gravelly hills and rises.

Buckell’s grig

Cyphoderris buckelli