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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) » Lesser Short-winged Mole Cricket (Neoscapteriscus abbreviatus)
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found digging in the sand - Neoscapteriscus abbreviatus
Copyright © 2010 scaley

found digging in the sand - Neoscapteriscus abbreviatus
Hypoluxo, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
Size: .5"
Found in the morning. It has specialized digging claws.

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Contributed by scaley on 19 January, 2010 - 10:42am
Last updated 5 March, 2018 - 10:11am

Moved
Moved from Two-clawed Mole Crickets.
… David J. Ferguson, 3 March, 2013 - 8:50am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mole Crickets.
… David J. Ferguson, 1 May, 2010 - 6:03am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 24 March, 2010 - 6:22pm login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 24 January, 2010 - 11:40pm login or register to post comments

Looks to me like
a Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpidae) of some kind--perhaps a young one if it was only half an inch long. Look around here and see what you think.

Maybe someone else will be able to give you a genus or species (or correct me if I'm wrong).
… Ken Wolgemuth, 19 January, 2010 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

 
looks right
thanks! Must be a juvenille since it doesn't have wings? I'll have to do some more research. . .
… scaley, 19 January, 2010 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

 
Scapteriscus abbreviatus?
found this key http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/fasulo/molecrickets/mcri0031.htm

appears to be the shortwinged mole cricket, though it is a nymph, so that's my guess based on the tibial dactyls and the "bulging abdomen."
… scaley, 19 January, 2010 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

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