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Robust Ground Crickets (Allonemobius)
Photo#692998
Copyright © 2012
Ben Gray
Cricket -
Allonemobius
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Shallow Ford Natural Area, Alamance County, North Carolina, USA
August 20, 2012
Is this an immature cricket? I'm not sure if what I think are wing buds are in fact buds or fully formed wings. Thanks for ID help!
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Contributed by
Ben Gray
on 20 August, 2012 - 5:33pm
Last updated 21 August, 2012 - 9:20am
a male Ground Cricket nymph
The wings are not fully developed in this one. If you look close, you can see the triangular hind wings are lying across the top side of the front wings to either side of them. When mature, the wings will all be much larger, with hind wings folded up like a fan and hidden under the front wings. In short-winged species, the arrangement is still the same. This one is nearly full-grown, and has no ovipositor showing (needle-like appendage at the tip of the abdomen), so would be a male.
I'm not sure which species this is. The nymphs of genus
Allonemobius
all tend to look a lot alike. It is likely
A. fasciatus
, but could be another.
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David J. Ferguson
, 21 August, 2012 - 9:08am
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