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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) » Western Tree Cricket (Oecanthus californicus)
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Oecanthus californicus - male
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Oecanthus californicus - Male
Cochise Stronghold, Dragoons, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
April 29, 2018
A single male found calling at night from mesquite (continuous trilling). No others heard or seen. I was very surprised to find an adult tree cricket so early in the year. My guess on this guy is a very old californicus male.

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Contributed by metrioptera on 8 May, 2018 - 6:27pm
Last updated 17 May, 2018 - 10:51pm

Moved
Specimen sent to Nancy Collins, who confirmed O. californicus

Moved from Varicornis Group.
… metrioptera, 17 May, 2018 - 10:50pm login or register to post comments

The VERY wide wings point to a species....
in the varicornis group. Certainly could be O. californicus, but can't rule out O. texensis either.
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