Definition:
Incorrect identification :When Scapteriscus vicinus was first discovered in Georgia, it was identified incorrectly as Scapteriscus didactylus, the changa or West Indian mole cricket, by people concerned with controlling it, and was thought to have come from the West Indies. This was because S. didactylus had been known as a severe pest in Puerto Rico for more than a century whereas no such ravages had previously been caused in southern USA; the people concerned guessed at the identity without taking the trouble to make a correct identification. Within a few years, a study of the taxonomy of Scapteriscus mole crickets occuring in Georgia and Florida showed the existence of three immigrant species: S. vicinus, S. borellii (then called S. acletus, but see synonymy) and S. abbreviatus. But the damage had been done: people in Georgia and Florida now used the name S. vicinus, but still called it the West Indian mole cricket; worse, people in Puerto Rico began to use the name S. vicinus for their major pest mole cricket which was, in reality, S. didactylus.