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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Northern Mole Crickets (Neocurtilla) » Northern Mole Cricket (Neocurtilla hexadactyla)
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lobster headed unknown creature - Neocurtilla hexadactyla
Copyright © 2013 Tabitha Kristy Payne

lobster headed unknown creature - Neocurtilla hexadactyla
Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
August 2, 2013
Size: 1 3/4's inch
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Contributed by Tabitha Kristy Payne on 9 August, 2013 - 6:15pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 9 August, 2013 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

Scapteriscus
Genus Scapteriscus
two-clawed mole crickets
… Tabitha Kristy Payne, 9 August, 2013 - 6:38pm login or register to post comments

 
If it is...
If it is a two-clawed mole cricket, it'd be a first for Maryland on Bugguide.

Cheers!
… Bill Myers, 9 August, 2013 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

Fossorial
Found this somewhere else on the internet by searching "digging insects".

Definition of Fossorial

Fossorial is a phrase used to describe the legs of some insects and other invertebrates that are modified for digging.

Fossorial limbs can be found on insects such as mole crickets. The fore limbs are enlarged and powerful and well adapted for digging.
… Tabitha Kristy Payne, 9 August, 2013 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

Mole Cricket
I suspect your mole cricket is a Neocurtilla hexadactyla, but I'm not 100 percent positive:

… Bill Myers, 9 August, 2013 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Mole Cricket
Thank you Bill. You are 100% correct. Thank you so much. We had been showing tons of others but just now got to posting on bug guide.
Thank you again.
… Tabitha Kristy Payne, 9 August, 2013 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

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