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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Two-clawed Mole Crickets (Neoscapteriscus) » Tawny Mole Cricket (Neoscapteriscus vicinus)
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55 - Neoscapteriscus vicinus - male
Copyright © 2008 chinook081

55 - Neoscapteriscus vicinus - Male
Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
June 17, 2008
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Contributed by chinook081 on 23 June, 2008 - 8:44pm
Last updated 21 June, 2017 - 9:30pm

Moved
Moved from Mole Crickets.
… John R. Maxwell, 27 March, 2009 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

Correct, it is a mole cricket
Correct, it is a mole cricket... there are only 4 species of them in US but I can't tell enough by this photo to determine which one it is.
… Jill VanDerBerg, 26 June, 2008 - 2:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Scapteriscus
This is a male of the genus Scapteriscus Scudder, 1869. Four species of Scapteriscus are known in the US, three introduced from South America and the fourth from the West Indies. This male almost certainly belongs in S. vicinus Scudder, 1869; S. abbreviatus Scudder, 1869 has markedly reduced tegmina and hind wings and S. borellii Giglio-Tos, 1894 usually has four prominent spots on the pronotum.
… Sam W. Heads, 15 November, 2008 - 10:18am login or register to post comments

looks like a
Looks like a mole cricket to me. Someone else may be able to give the species.
… Matt Edmonds, 23 June, 2008 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

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