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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)
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Tree cricket female on Zinnia - Oecanthus - female
Copyright © 2016 Lynn Monroe

Tree cricket female on Zinnia - Oecanthus - Female
6 miles NW Lyons, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
October 17, 1999
Size: ~14.5 without ovipositor
THis very narrow and elongate and pale insect looks like a female tree cricket. It was on a garden zinnia in the CO foothills at about 6400'. Any help with its ID is greatly appreciated.

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Contributed by Lynn Monroe on 9 March, 2016 - 6:09pm
Last updated 9 March, 2016 - 8:20pm

yes, female Oecanthus sp.
Nancy should be able to take further.

Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 9 March, 2016 - 8:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Interesting individual
I'm afraid I too am unable to place it beyond Oecanthus.

It could be an especially pale individual, which might also be a result of high elevation in October. My best guess would be Oecanthus californicus, but that is just a guess. The antennae do seem to be red tinged. If this is a pallid version of a brown form O. californicus, that might explain why there is no black on proximal end of the antennae.

However, it also appears to have an upper-outer black antennal marking on the first antennal segment. O. californicus is quite variable - but a definite ID is probably not possible.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 9 March, 2016 - 11:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Oecanthus sp
Thanks so much for looking at this Oecanthus female and for your comments. They are much appreciated.
… Lynn Monroe, 10 March, 2016 - 11:02am login or register to post comments

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