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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Tree Crickets (Oecanthinae) » Common Tree Crickets (Oecanthus) » Varicornis Group (Oecanthus Varicornis Group) » Western Tree Cricket (Oecanthus californicus) » Oecanthus californicus pictipennis

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Cricket - Oecanthus californicus -

Florida Canyon, Pima County, Arizona, USA
November 20, 2010

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Cricket - Oecanthus californicus - female

Cricket - Oecanthus californicus - female

Cricket - Oecanthus californicus - female

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 21 November, 2010 - 10:07pm
Last updated 29 November, 2010 - 3:56pm

I'll take the plunge and go ahead and move it.

I'm pretty sure that's what it is. You can "let me have it" if wrong. :0)

Moved from Common Tree Crickets.

… David J. Ferguson, 29 November, 2010 - 3:56pm

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Moved

Moved from Common Tree Crickets.

… margarethe brummermann, 22 November, 2010 - 8:03am

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Moved

Moved from True Crickets.

… margarethe brummermann, 22 November, 2010 - 8:03am

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It's a female Tree Cricket,

genus Oecanthus. It's often much easier to get to species if you can photograph the underside of the base of the antennae (often you can get them in a head on shot, or sometimes from below with a piece of glass). Probably can get it down to a species or a few anyway. In fact, I suspect it is of the O. californicus "group", and likely of the "pictipennis" segregate, which seems to like to sit in (and probably feed on) Junipers and perhaps Piñons.

… David J. Ferguson, 22 November, 2010 - 3:27am

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Hard to pinpoint to species

Since this is 1) a female and 2) one of the O. californicus forms - I think it will be nearly impossible to get it to species. I visited Payson AZ this summer and found 2 males on Junipers -- and thought for sure they would be the pictipennis form, but are actually O. californicus - pale form. As far as I know, the only visual difference would be the dark veins on the tegmina of the male ?

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 24 November, 2010 - 6:56am

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The habitat fits

I'll try to figure out the antennae shot later

… margarethe brummermann, 22 November, 2010 - 8:01am

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