found digging in the sand - Neoscapteriscus abbreviatus

Moved

Moved from Two-clawed Mole Crickets.

… David J. Ferguson, 3 March, 2013 - 8:50am

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Moved from Mole Crickets.

… David J. Ferguson, 1 May, 2010 - 6:03am

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Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.

… David J. Ferguson, 24 March, 2010 - 6:22pm

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Moved from ID Request.

… v belov, 24 January, 2010 - 11:40pm

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

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

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