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unknown digger? - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female

unknown digger? - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - Female
Efland, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
August 27, 2005
Size: 1.5 inches
Found scampering across a parking lot (asphalt) at night. Nymph of something?

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unknown digger? - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female unknown digger? - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female unknown digger? - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female unknown digger? - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female

Mole Cricket
This is a mole cricket. I would guess a Southern Mole Cricket (Scapteriscus borellii). But someone else would need to confirm the species... :)

 
Neocurtilla hexadactyla
Based on the shape of the digging claws Im inclined to say is Neocurtilla hexadactyla. If you look at the second picture in the series, you can see that there are distinctly four claws arrayed in a row, which to my knowledge is typical of Neocurtilla.

I also beleive that in the Southern Mole Cricket, the wings almost fully cover the abdomen

 
You are correct...
This is definitely Neocurtilla hexadactyla; the distalmost branches of vein Sc in the tegmen point back towards the wing base. This is one of the defining characters of the genus Neocurtilla; in Gryllotalpa all the Sc branches point towards the tegminal apex.

Both Gryllotalpa and Neocurtilla have four protibial dactyls, though Scapteriscus has only two.

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