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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Camel Crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) » Tropidischiinae » Tropidischia » Square-legged Camel Cricket (Tropidischia xanthostoma)
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beach bug - Tropidischia xanthostoma
Copyright © 2008 greengrape

beach bug - Tropidischia xanthostoma
La Push, Clallam County, Washington, USA
September 7, 2008
Size: 2"-3"
I found this thing on the beach moving really slowly dragging its belly
It looked like a potato bug with grasshopper legs and shrimp antlers
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Contributed by greengrape on 8 September, 2008 - 2:49pm
Last updated 25 September, 2008 - 2:15am

Camel cricket.
This looks like a nymph of the camel cricket, Tropidischia xanthostoma. Adults can have a maximum legspan of eight (8) inches! Totally harmless, and usually found in old wells, under bridges, and other dark, moist niches.
… Eric R. Eaton, 8 September, 2008 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

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