What is this called? Male or female? - Microcentrum

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… v belov, 23 September, 2009 - 4:08pm

Two choices in your area

There is some good information these at the Singing Insects of North America web site.
One choice is M. rhombifolium
The other is M. retinerve

The shape of the pronotum and the size are characters that seem to help best in separating the two. Your's does look to me like it is probably M. rhombifolium.

… David J. Ferguson, 2 September, 2009 - 12:01pm

Microcentrum species

Not sure which one, but likely M. rhombifolium. We only have one species in Colorado and New Mexico, so I haven't really properly learned the differences between species yet.

This would be a male. Even if the ovipositor or cerci aren't visible on the end of the abdomen (ovipositor obvious on female and absent on male; cerci look different), the top of the wings where they fold over one another are different too. The male has modified veins there for "singing", and the veins are obvious curved with larger "windows" between some of them. On the female the veins are arranged neetly and not curved in the same way there (much as on the rest of the front wing - or tegmen).

… David J. Ferguson, 1 September, 2009 - 2:38pm

Cropping

Please crop your images closer to "just the bug". Only you and the editors can see your full size images. Just click "edit" and change the image.

… John R. Maxwell, 1 September, 2009 - 2:11pm

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Edited to a larger image of "just the bug".I hope this helps,Thanks.

… domino1shihtzu, 2 September, 2009 - 8:50am