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Cricket nymph - Cycloptilum - female

Cricket nymph - Cycloptilum - Female
Ft. Tilden, Queens County, New York, USA
October 13, 2012
Size: 1 cm

Members of the "Bidens Complex"
have been collected as far north as Long Island. This group includes three species - C. bidens, C. tardum, & C. velox. As of 1979 when this group was revised by Love & Walker, C. tardum had been recorded singing as near as Maryland, and is probably the one in the photo here, but a song needs to be heard to be sure which species this is. I have not found more recent information about which one is found in New York.

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.

 
Thanks. Is it
a nymph?

 
Is it a nymph?
No, an adult female. All female scaly crickets lack wings, males have short, rounded wings, in some species completely covered by an extended pronotum. Juvenile females have a very short, thick ovipositor in the last instar.

 
To be honest, I can't tell for sure.
It looks adult to me, but I could be wrong. If I knew the eastern species better, I could probably tell for sure from the coloring and length of the ovipositor, but I need more practice.

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Scaly cricket?

 
Interesting
Would be way north of other BG records.

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