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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Gryllotalpa
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Earwig Type? - Gryllotalpa
Copyright © 2007 tomtyrrell

Earwig Type? - Gryllotalpa
Brookfield, Connecticut, USA
June 23, 2007
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Contributed by tomtyrrell on 24 June, 2007 - 8:18pm
Last updated 1 March, 2009 - 4:51pm

Moved
Moved from Mole Crickets.
… john and jane balaban, 30 March, 2008 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

Gryllotalpa sp.
This is Gryllotalpa though it is difficult to determine which species based on this photograph. Gryllotalpa spp. can be easily distinguished from Neocurtilla spp. by examining the veins in the costal area of the tegmen (sometimes referred to as the lateral field); in Gryllotalpa all the veins are directed apically, whereas in Neocurtilla the distalmost veins are directed backwards, towards the wing base.
… Sam W. Heads, 28 March, 2008 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

earwig type
I think it's similer to what I have always heard called a"Potato Bug"
This may be a really big one.
… justen, 24 June, 2007 - 10:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Potato Bug is different:


They're both odd earth-dwellers related to crickets and katydids, but they're in different families.
… Chuck Entz, 25 June, 2007 - 12:10am login or register to post comments

Mole cricket
Mole cricket, more common in the southern U.S. than up north.
… Brad Barnd, 24 June, 2007 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

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