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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) » forbesi vs nigricornis (Oecanthus forbesi vs nigricornis)
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cricket - Oecanthus
Copyright © 2015 sh11

cricket - Oecanthus
Mississauga, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada
August 6, 2014

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cricket - Oecanthus cricket - Oecanthus
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Contributed by sh11 on 23 November, 2015 - 11:12am
Last updated 2 December, 2015 - 9:08pm

I agree with metrioptera
Oecanthus forbesi and Oecanthus nigricornis cannot be ID'd by photos - both are too variable in color and markings -- and can look exactly like the other species. Some O. forbesi have a lot of black, some O. nigricornis have very little black ... and vice versa.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 2 December, 2015 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

 
As always, thanks so
much for your help and detailed comments Wisconsin!
… sh11, 5 December, 2015 - 5:11am login or register to post comments

Oecanthus nymph
Probably O. nigricornis/forbesi, but wait for Nancy

Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 23 November, 2015 - 1:40pm login or register to post comments

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