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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Tree Crickets (Oecanthinae) » Common Tree Crickets (Oecanthus) » Nigricornis Group (Oecanthus Nigricornis Group) » Prairie Tree Cricket (Oecanthus argentinus)
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Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus argentinus - male
Copyright © 2010 Ken Schneider

Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus argentinus - Male
Stulsaft Park, Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA
July 25, 2010
Size: ~ 1 cm
Swept from some grass and flowers. I must confess, I'm not completely sure how to separate our Timema sp. phasmids from some of the wingless or nymphal orthopterans... :(

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Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus argentinus - male Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus argentinus - male Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus argentinus - male Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus argentinus - male
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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 25 July, 2010 - 11:41pm
Last updated 30 July, 2010 - 12:55am

Moved
Moved from nigricornis group.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 27 July, 2010 - 6:03am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 26 July, 2010 - 6:30am login or register to post comments

Definitely a tree cricket
...appears to be a male - 4th stage instar based on the length of the developing wings. My best guess would be Prairie tree cricket based on: dark green abdomen, dark antennae which indicates nigricornis group member, location. It most resembles Black-horned, but they are not known to occur in CA. It is too dark to be Four-spotted, and Fast-calling does not occur in CA. That only leaves Pine and Tamarack -- definitely not them. Therefore, left with Prairie. GREAT shots of the markings on the abdomen.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 26 July, 2010 - 6:29am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for the move and all the information. My first tree cricket observation! :)
… Ken Schneider, 26 July, 2010 - 9:41am login or register to post comments

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