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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Winged Bush Crickets, Trigs (Trigonidiinae) » Phyllopalpus » Red-headed Bush Cricket (Phyllopalpus pulchellus)

Species Phyllopalpus pulchellus - Red-headed Bush Cricket

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Red-headed Bush Cricket - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - female Unknown bug 2 - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - male Grasshopper-like - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - male Red-headed Bush Cricket - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - male Cricket? - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - male Female Phyllopalpus pulchellus - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - female Red Cricket - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - female Red-headed Bush Cricket nymph - Phyllopalpus pulchellus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Gryllidea (Crickets)
Family Gryllidae (True Crickets)
Subfamily Trigonidiinae (Winged Bush Crickets, Trigs)
Genus Phyllopalpus
Species pulchellus (Red-headed Bush Cricket)
Other Common Names
Handsome Trig
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Phyllopalpus pulchellus Uhler, 1864
Size
7-9mm
Identification
Distinctive appearance. Red head/throrax, pale legs, dark bluish-black forewings. Last segment of palp is black and oval flattened shape. Female forewings are convex similar to beetles. (1) Song (of male) is a "rattling, broken trill" (2), given both day and night. Left wing of male is clear (2), apparently modified for stridulation.
Range
Southeast U.S. north to Illinois and New Jersey, excluding South Florida. (1)
Habitat
Found in vegetation near streams and marshes, about a meter above the ground. (1)
Season
Single generation; adults begin to appear in July/early August. (1)
Remarks
Perhaps Batesian mimics of Bombardier Beetles, Brachinus , and relatives:
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The color scheme is a match, and the enlarged palpi of the cricket do have the appearance of beetle mandibles.
See Also
Capinera remarks that there are no similar species in the U.S. (1).
Print References
Capinera, pp. 202-203 & plate 44 (1)
Elliott and Hershberger, pp. 90-91, CD track 24 (2)
Helfer, pp. 331-332, fig. 529 (3)
Rannels et al., CD track 39 (4)
Internet References
Singing Insects of North America--handsome trig
Works Cited
1.Field Guide To Grasshoppers, Katydids, And Crickets Of The United States
By John L. Capinera, Ralph D. Scott, Thomas J. Walker
2.The Songs of Insects
By Lang Elliott, Wil Hershberger
3.How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies
By Jacques R. Helfer
4. Songs of Crickets and Katydids of the Mid-Atlantic States
By Steve Rannels, Wil Hershberger and Joseph Dillon
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Boone, cotinis
Last updated 7 October, 2010 - 10:00pm

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