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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) » Smooth-legged Tree Crickets (Neoxabea) » Two-spotted Tree Cricket (Neoxabea bipunctata)
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Tree Crickets Mating? - Neoxabea bipunctata - male - female
Copyright © 2014 Rich Hoyer

Tree Crickets Mating? - Neoxabea bipunctata - Male Female
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
July 30, 2014
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Contributed by Rich Hoyer on 31 July, 2014 - 12:44am
Last updated 31 July, 2014 - 6:38am

This really is an awesome photo
I've never seen the knobs on the back of the male from this angle. Perhaps he is maneuvering/contracting/expanding his abdomen when this pic was taken -- making the knobs more prominent momentarily.

Also nice that we can see the spermatophore that has already been transferred into the female's oviduct.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 29 March, 2018 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

According to Nancy's book
"The female sips secretions from a pit (the metanotal gland) on the back of the male which she can reach only when he lifts his wings to sing." See here
… john and jane balaban, 31 July, 2014 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

 
I was wondering . . .
what they were doing.
… Rich Hoyer, 31 July, 2014 - 11:45pm login or register to post comments

yes, a pair of Neoxabea bipunctata
Moved from ID Request.
Great shot!
… metrioptera, 31 July, 2014 - 6:38am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
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… Rich Hoyer, 31 July, 2014 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

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