Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Register · Log In
HomeGuideID RequestRecentFrassForumsDonateHelp
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Registration is open for the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2023

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events
TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Camel Crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) » Ceuthophilinae » Ceuthophilus » Ceuthophilus conicaudus
Photo#1163746
Camel cricket? - Ceuthophilus conicaudus - female
Copyright © 2015 Salvador Vitanza

Camel cricket? - Ceuthophilus conicaudus - Female
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA
November 7, 2015

Images of this individual: tag all
Camel cricket? - Ceuthophilus conicaudus - female Camel cricket? - Ceuthophilus conicaudus - female Camel cricket? - Ceuthophilus conicaudus - female
tag · login or register to post comments
Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 7 November, 2015 - 10:02pm
Last updated 20 March, 2016 - 9:27am

while apparently not recorded from quite this far west,
this appears to be Ceuthophilus conicaudus. It has been found at least as near as the Davis Mountains and Carlsbad Caverns. Intensity of coloring varies in the species, but the pattern of these appears to be right, and the morphology seems right too.

Closely related to more eastern C. secretus.

If you get a chance, it wouldn't hurt to get some shots of the end of a male abdomen and female ovipositor (something like this and this) to be more certain of it's identity.

Moved from Camel Crickets.
… David J. Ferguson, 20 March, 2016 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

 
I hope to go back to
this mine later this year and collect a few specimens for the photos you are suggesting. I am about to go out of town for 5 weeks, but I will keep my eye open for this and other bugs after my return. Thank you David!
… Salvador Vitanza, 20 March, 2016 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

 
I just stumbled across another name
described in 1947 by Strohecker from the Organ Mountains, which may come into play here. This is C. leptopus. The original description is here. There isn't much information available on it, but it sounds similar, and is described from close.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 March, 2016 - 5:39am login or register to post comments

 
Interesting!
C. leptopus was described as a new species in 1945 from specimens which coloration was presumed to have been altered by the trapping method.
… Salvador Vitanza, 21 March, 2016 - 5:49am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 8 November, 2015 - 8:46am login or register to post comments

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2024 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact