Hi,
This type of insect is frequently found trapped in our backyard pool, NSW, Australia. Can you please help and identify it?
I can't say what species but I would call this a "mole cricket" - some info on the family (Gryllotalpidae) here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_cricket
That said, a couple of my Australian colleagues said they would call cooloquially call this a "sandgroper", although that common name seems now to be associated with species now assigned to the family Cylindrachetidae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandgroper_(insect)
Both these families are part of the order Orthoptera which includes grasshoppers, crickets, locusts and their close relatives.
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