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Northern Mole Cricket (Neocurtilla hexadactyla)
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Copyright © 2005
Jim Kramer
unknown digger? -
Neocurtilla hexadactyla
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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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Contributed by
Jim Kramer
on 28 August, 2005 - 9:11pm
Last updated 11 October, 2010 - 9:54pm
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... :)
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Christopher Hunt
, 28 August, 2005 - 9:26pm
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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
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Kyle Pias
, 28 August, 2005 - 9:35pm
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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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Sam W. Heads
, 19 December, 2007 - 11:40am
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