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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Pygmy Mole 'Crickets' (Tridactylidae) » Ellipes » Smaller Sand Cricket (Ellipes minuta)
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Unknown - Ellipes minuta
Copyright © 2015 Alain Hogue

Unknown - Ellipes minuta
Chateauguay (25 miles north of USA border), Quebec, Canada
May 16, 2015
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Contributed by Alain Hogue on 19 May, 2015 - 10:12am
Last updated 15 June, 2018 - 9:49am

Moved
Moved from Pygmy Mole 'Crickets'.
… metrioptera, 15 June, 2018 - 9:49am login or register to post comments

tridactylidae
First from Quebec on BugGuide.

Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 19 May, 2015 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks !
Glad to know that !
… Alain Hogue, 19 May, 2015 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Neotridactylus apicialis and Ellipes minuta are the only species that range into Canada, but I can't see the diagnostic features.
… metrioptera, 19 May, 2015 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Diagnostic features ?
What are the diagnostic features. Do we need photo with a different angle ?
… Alain Hogue, 19 May, 2015 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

 
The usual diagnostic features are on the hind tibiae, which tend to be tucked underneath the huge hind femora, as in this one.

Some comments by David Ferguson on diagnostic coloration on this image are interesting. I lean toward N. apicalis, but I have no firsthand experience with this group.
… metrioptera, 19 May, 2015 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Tridactylidae sp
Unfortunately I have no photo showing the hind tibiae correctly. So this insect will remain a tridactylidae sp. Thanks for your time !
… Alain Hogue, 20 May, 2015 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

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