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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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Unknown insect found in a hollow of a tree - Tropidischia xanthostoma
Copyright © 2011 ymyhre

Unknown insect found in a hollow of a tree - Tropidischia xanthostoma
Qualicum, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
June 24, 2011
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Contributed by ymyhre on 27 June, 2011 - 2:43pm
Last updated 11 July, 2011 - 11:47am

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… David J. Ferguson, 11 July, 2011 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Camel Crickets.
… David J. Ferguson, 11 July, 2011 - 11:46am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… Graham Montgomery, 1 July, 2011 - 1:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 1 July, 2011 - 4:48am login or register to post comments

Looks like
a molting camel cricket, family Rhaphidophoridae.
… Graham Montgomery, 27 June, 2011 - 3:08pm login or register to post comments

 
This insect was about 3 inche
This insect was about 3 inches long in total, not sure how big a camel cricket is?
… ymyhre, 27 June, 2011 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Depends on whether you count the legs
Check out this report
… john and jane balaban, 27 June, 2011 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
not counting the legs, the bo
not counting the legs, the body itself is about an inch or so. Could it be anything else?
… ymyhre, 27 June, 2011 - 5:22pm login or register to post comments

 
A body length of
1 inch would be an average size for a camel cricket. Even if it was much smaller or much larger, I would still be confident about the identification; these are pretty distinctive insects.
… Graham Montgomery, 27 June, 2011 - 5:33pm login or register to post comments

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