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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Raspy Crickets (Gryllacrididae) » Camptonotus » Carolina Leaf-roller (Camptonotus carolinensis)

Species Camptonotus carolinensis - Carolina Leaf-roller

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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Carolina Leaf-roller Nymph - Camptonotus carolinensis

Carolina Leaf-roller - Camptonotus carolinensis - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)

Family Gryllacrididae (Raspy Crickets)

Genus Camptonotus

Species carolinensis (Carolina Leaf-roller)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Camptonotus carolinensis (Gerstaecker, 1860)

Size

12-15 mm

Identification

Small, smooth, and yellow-brown. Runs rapidly. Antennae very long, at least five times as long as body. (These do not stick out of leaf shelter.) Ovipositor is (often, though not always) upturned and carried over back (1). Most (or all?) individuals appear to be apterous, thus flightless (guide images).

Range

Southeastern United States.

Habitat

Deciduous forests. Shelters in rolled-up leaf (fastened with silk from glands on mouth) during the day.

Season

Late summer to fall. Nymphs in July-August, adults September-October in North Carolina (2).

Food

Hunts aphids at night.

Life Cycle

Bites through leaf in order to form flap. Flap is folded over, edge is pulled down with legs, and then edges are glued together with silk from gland on mouth. Sometimes uses the pods of Bladdernut, Staphylea trifolia, as a shelter instead of a leaf (3).

Print References

Brimley, p. 21 (2)

Capinera et al., p. 217, plate 48 (1)

Helfer, pp. 306-307, fig. 485 (3)

Internet References

Singing Insects of North America--Family Gryllacrididae

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide To Grasshoppers, Katydids, And Crickets Of The United States By John L. Capinera, Ralph D. Scott, Thomas J. Walker

2.	Insects of North Carolina By C.S. Brimley

3.	How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies By Jacques R. Helfer

Contributed by Cotinis on 28 August, 2005 - 9:08pm
Last updated 24 September, 2010 - 4:27am

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