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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Camel Crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) » Tropidischia » Tropidischia xanthostoma
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Please ID - Tropidischia xanthostoma
Copyright © 2005 mike09

Please ID - Tropidischia xanthostoma
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
August 15, 2005
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Contributed by mike09 on 18 August, 2005 - 11:36pm
Last updated 27 January, 2006 - 5:35pm

Camel cricket.
How big was this thing? Sure looks like a female square-legged camel cricket, Tropidischia xanthostoma. They get to be enormous (maximum legspan of about eight (8) inches according to one reference). Their antennae are also very long. They usually occur in damp, dark places like wells, beneath bridges, mine shafts, etc. on the west coast.
… Eric R. Eaton, 19 August, 2005 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

 
this one was about 5 or 6 inc
this one was about 5 or 6 inches but thats just an estimate.
… mike09, 19 August, 2005 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Tropidischia
Tropidischia routinely get that large, so that is what you have. Cool! Thanks for sharing the image.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 January, 2006 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

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