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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Two-clawed Mole Crickets (Scapteriscus) » Southern Mole Cricket (Scapteriscus borellii)
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Mole Cricket - Scapteriscus borellii - male
Copyright © 2005 Lew Scharpf

Mole Cricket - Scapteriscus borellii - Male
Auburn, Lee County, Alabama, USA
August 18, 2005
Size: 50mm
Thanks, Patrick, for your comments and possible ID's for the mole cricket. Note the close up image of the foretarsi of this specimen. I believe it to be a Northern Mole Cricket, Neocurtilla hexadactyla in that it seems to have four digging "claws", all in a row on foretarsi. Would appreciate your thoughts as well as any others.

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Contributed by Lew Scharpf on 23 August, 2005 - 7:30pm
Last updated 29 March, 2008 - 4:57pm

Moved
Moved from Mole Crickets.
… John R. Maxwell, 29 March, 2008 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

Scapteriscus borellii ♂
This is Scapteriscus borellii Giglio-Tos, 1894 ♂. The two pale spots are characteristic of this species and the tegminal venation indicates that this is a male.
… Sam W. Heads, 28 March, 2008 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

Claw comparison, hmm
What I think are:
Neocurtilla (Northern)/ Scapteriscus (Southern)


This page has links to larger images of claws, too. Hard to tell with the varying angles. Look at detail photos of
Neocurtilla/Scapteriscus, too.

Looking at the pronotum, too, I'm not sure. The photos of Neocurtilla show a more hooded pronotum, covering more of head. Scapteriscus has less of a cowl over head, more of a smooth seam between pronotum and head, in what I think is happening in my photos. On that, your photo looks more like Scapteriscus to me.

Tough! As I said, I've only seen one of each.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 23 August, 2005 - 9:37pm login or register to post comments

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