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Species Oecanthus latipennis - Broad-winged Tree Cricket

broad-winged tree cricket pair, yellow male - Oecanthus latipennis - male - female

Broad-winged Tree Cricket - Oecanthus latipennis - female

Male Oecanthus latipennis - Oecanthus latipennis - male

Tree Cricket - Oecanthus latipennis - male

Broad-winged Tree Cricket - Oecanthus latipennis - male

Pair of tree crickets - Oecanthus latipennis - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Infraorder Gryllidea (Crickets)

Family Gryllidae (True Crickets)

Subfamily Oecanthinae (Tree Crickets)

Genus Oecanthus (Common Tree Crickets)

No Taxon (Varicornis Group)

Species latipennis (Broad-winged Tree Cricket)

Size

They are the largest tree cricket found in the US and Canada = 17mm to 22mm.

Identification

The head has a true red color, the proximal portions of the antennae are dark red, and the hind 'knees' have an orange tint. These characteristics are found in Broad-winged Tree Crickets. The distal portion of the wings appear to be more than 3 times the width of the distal abdomen - hence the name.

Range

Nebraska east to New Jersey then south to Florida then west to Texas and back north to Nebraska.

Habitat

Trees and shrubs.

Life Cycle

Undergo a paurometabolous development (Gradual Metamorphosis). Nymphs resemble small adults and gradually develop external wing buds. They live in the same habitat as adults, typically taking the same food.

Remarks

A great source for 'everything you ever wanted to know about tree crickets' is an article written in May 1915 by Bentley B. Fulton in a Technical Bulletin for the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. The Tree Crickets of New York: Life History and Bionomics

Internet References

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/592a.htm Singing Insects of North America

http://oecanthinae Tree Crickets - information and photos

Contributed by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy on 5 September, 2008 - 2:19pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, David Ferguson
Last updated 6 September, 2011 - 7:29am

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