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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Entrance to a retreat gnawed into the cork of a water vial by a caged Tafalisca lineatipes juvenile. During the day the cricket remained concealed within its domicile with its long antennae folded upon themselves and out of sight.
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Photograph of mating pair (female, on right, is eating a spermatophore that she received and removed while mounted on the male). For more on cricket mating see Alexander RD, Otte D. 1967. The evolution of genitalia and mating behavior in crickets (Gryllidae) and other Orthoptera. Misc Publ Mus Zool, Univ Michigan, No. 133. 62 pp.
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Susan A. Wineriter/Singing Insects of North America
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Belfrage's Cricket (Trigonidomimus belfragei) female.
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Belfrage's Cricket (Trigonidomimus belfragei) has antennae inserted below the middle of the face.
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Belfrage's Cricket (Trigonidomimus belfragei) second tarsal segment is small and cylindrical (in drawing, distal end of tibia is on left).
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Belfrage's Cricket (Trigonidomimus belfragei) ovipositor is slender and straight.
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Susan A. Wineriter/Singing Insects of North America
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Narrow-beaked Katydid (Turpilia rostrata) male.
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Susan A. Wineriter/Singing Insects of North America
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Japanese Burrowing Cricket (Velarifictorus micado) male.
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Velarifictorus micado male. Note characteristic facial pattern, long mandibles, and white palps.
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Lucinda Treadwell/Singing Insects of North America
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Black-winged Shieldback (Zacycloptera atripennis) male specimen.
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Susan A. Wineriter/Singing Insects of North America
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Mediterranean Katydid (Phaneroptera nana) male.
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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Round-tipped Conehead (Neoconocephalus retusus) cone (ventral view).
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Susan A. Wineriter/Singing Insects of North America
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Handsome Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum pulchellum), left cercus of male (dorsal view).
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Anabrus simplex, drawing of subgenital plate of female, apex uppermost, showing apical hooks (HO). Fig. 18 in Gurney, A.B. 1939. Aids to the identification of the mormon and coulee crickets and their allies (Orthoptera; Tettigoniidae; Gryllacrididae). US Dept. Agric. Bureau of Entomol. & Plant Quarantine E-479.19 pp.
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Anabrus simplex, drawing of dorsal view of apex of male abdomen (t=tergite, c=cercus). Fig. 8 in Gurney, A.B. 1939. Aids to the identification of the mormon and coulee crickets and their allies (Orthoptera; Tettigoniidae; Gryllacrididae). US Dept. Agric. Bureau of Entomol. & Plant Quarantine E-479.19 pp.
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Anabrus simplex, drawing of right male cercus, left oblique dorsal view. Fig. 23 in Gurney, A.B. 1939. Aids to the identification of the mormon and coulee crickets and their allies (Orthoptera; Tettigoniidae; Gryllacrididae). US Dept. Agric. Bureau of Entomol. & Plant Quarantine E-479.19 pp.
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Thomas J. Walker/Singing Insects of North America
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