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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) » Rileyi Group (Oecanthus Rileyi Group) » Riley's Tree Cricket (Oecanthus rileyi)
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Tiny katydid...I think... - Oecanthus rileyi
Copyright © 2011 Arthur Scott Macmillan

Tiny katydid...I think... - Oecanthus rileyi
Soquel, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
July 18, 2011
This must be immature...it is very small. It was on some small white flowers. I was wondering is this going to be white as an adult? It really blended in on the flowers! The antennae are at least 3 times longer than the insect's body!

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Contributed by Arthur Scott Macmillan on 19 July, 2011 - 10:02pm
Last updated 20 July, 2011 - 5:35pm

Moved
Moved from Long-horned Orthoptera. I'm guessing this is O. rileyi. The only other species it resembles is O. fultoni, but the white blotches on the abdomen seem smaller to me on fultoni.
Note the pale limbs, the pale antennae with black rings, the pale overall color. Looks to be a 2d stage (elevated thoracic segments)-nice shot despite the blurring from movement.

I have not yet had direct experience raising O. rileyi - thus if in the future this proves not to be O. rileyi, it will be moved.

Great addition to the guide.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 20 July, 2011 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for your kind words, and great detective...
Thanks for your kind words, and great detective work. I almost did not submit this do to the shaky images, and my knowledge of how hard these can be to ID!
… Arthur Scott Macmillan, 21 July, 2011 - 9:53pm login or register to post comments

oecanthine cricket nymph, i guess
… v belov, 19 July, 2011 - 10:15pm login or register to post comments

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