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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Two-clawed Mole Crickets (Neoscapteriscus) » Southern Mole Cricket (Neoscapteriscus borellii)
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mole cricket in dunes - Neoscapteriscus borellii
Copyright © 2006 Matt Windsor

mole cricket in dunes - Neoscapteriscus borellii
nags head, Dare County, North Carolina, USA
February 20, 2006
Size: 2"
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Contributed by Matt Windsor on 21 February, 2006 - 2:24pm
Last updated 1 May, 2010 - 6:25am

Moved
Moved from Mole Crickets.
… john and jane balaban, 30 March, 2008 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

Key
Here's a key to the genera of mole crickets in the US, but it's based on forefoot morphology. Do you have pix that show details on the forefoot?
… Jim McClarin, 21 February, 2006 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Nymph, too.
This specimen is also a nymph, so it may be the adult morphology in general is different anyway. Placing in guide at family level.
… Eric R. Eaton, 7 June, 2006 - 6:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Scapteriscus borellii
This mole cricket was ID'd by David Stephan of North Carolina State as
Scapteriscus borellii.

Matt Windsor
… Matt Windsor, 7 June, 2006 - 6:17pm login or register to post comments

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