Identification: Anterior ventral carina of middle femur with 3 or 4 spines; stridulatory vein, viewed from above, exceeding 3 mm and of approximate uniform width. Length 47-59 mm for males and 53-70 for females.
Habitat: Tropical hammock.
Season: Aug. (perhaps year-round).
Song: Bouts of rattling, mostly between 1 and 4 h after sunset, with component sequences lasting 1 sec to 5 min or longer.
Similar species: Neoconocephalus maxillosus, which has the anterior ventral carina of the middle femur with 0-1 spines; stridulatory vein, viewed from above, less than 3 mm.
Remarks: Neoconocephalus affinis is common throughout the Caribbean but in the United States is known only from northern Key Largo.
More information: subfamily Copiphorinae, genus Neoconocephalus
References: Brush et al. 1985; Greenfield 1983, 1993.
Neoconocephalus affinis is een rechtvleugelig insect uit de familie sabelsprinkhanen (Tettigoniidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1805 door Beauvois.
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