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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) » Varicornis Group (Oecanthus Varicornis Group) » Western Tree Cricket (Oecanthus californicus) » californicus - pale form (Oecanthus californicus californicus - pale form)
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Different Horned Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus californicus
Copyright © 2011 WTA1

Different Horned Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus californicus
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
October 10, 2011
Size: 20 mm body length

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Different Horned Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus californicus Different Horned Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus californicus
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Contributed by WTA1 on 10 October, 2011 - 8:47pm

Moved
Moved from Western Tree Cricket.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 10 October, 2011 - 9:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Varicornis Group.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 10 October, 2011 - 9:20pm login or register to post comments

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Moved from ID Request. Good eye....and good use of ID keys. You are correct in that this is a member of the 'varicornis group' of tree crickets.

Note the straw-colored distal antennae - which is very different from the deep black antennae of O. varicornis; note the rose-colored pedicel and scape as compared to the deep red of O. varicornis; and the pale pinkish head compared to the deep red on O. varicornis.

This appears to me to be Oecanthus californicus - which can have a variety of head colors - from pink to reddish. However, there is another very similar looking species found in extreme southern Texas awaiting description by Dr. Walker from UFL. I'll send him a message to see what he thinks.

I'll put it in Oecanthus californicus for now.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 10 October, 2011 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Different Horned Tree Cricket? - Oecanthus californicus
Thank you for your quick and informative response. My wife and I photograph every bug we find in our yard and then try to identify them. I apologize for the quality of the pictures as I apparently mistyped the resolution and ended up with these which are very blurry. Thanks for your help and information on the O. varicornis. I suspected it wasn't him, but I was stuck.
… WTA1, 11 October, 2011 - 12:25am login or register to post comments

 
Your photo is quite good....you managed
to get a GREAT view of the antennal markings.

I heard back from Dr. Walker - and he confirms it could very well be either O. californicus or the other similar looking tree cricket that has not yet been described. I'll leave it here in O. californicus for now.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 9 December, 2011 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

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