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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) » Nigricornis Group (Oecanthus Nigricornis Group) » Prairie Tree Cricket (Oecanthus argentinus)
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Oecanthus - Oecanthus argentinus - male
Copyright © 2015 Even Dankowicz

Oecanthus - Oecanthus argentinus - Male
Loda Cemetery Prairie, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA
August 13, 2015
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Contributed by Even Dankowicz on 1 November, 2015 - 12:39pm
Last updated 2 November, 2015 - 9:08pm

I suspect this is Prairie tree cricket.....
....not just because of where you found it ;)

The overall pale green color with some dark grey/black on the distal limbs and antennae - but no black or yellow on the head - are characters of O. argentinus. This species also tends to have that wide area of white on each side of the pronotum, and the long tips of the hindwings extending past the tegmina. The antennal markings would have been the best clue, but this seems like a good fit for Prairie tree cricket.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 2 November, 2015 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from True Crickets.
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