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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) » Common Tree Crickets (Oecanthus) » Varicornis Group (Oecanthus Varicornis Group) » Broad-winged Tree Cricket (Oecanthus latipennis)
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Broad-winged Tree Cricket - Oecanthus latipennis - male
Copyright © 2015 Kayla S. Veitch

Broad-winged Tree Cricket - Oecanthus latipennis - Male
London, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA
October 8, 2015
I know nothing about crickets but the red stuck out, want it confirmed or change. Don't know how helpful it would be but I could always upload the video of him singing somewhere

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Contributed by Kayla S. Veitch on 9 October, 2015 - 2:53am
Last updated 9 October, 2015 - 7:38pm

Red on the proximal portion of the antennae....
...is a characteristic only seen on O. latipennis. Those very, very wide wings are another clue -- this is a male Broad-winged Tree Cricket.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 9 October, 2015 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 9 October, 2015 - 5:06am login or register to post comments

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