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Broad-tipped Conehead - Neoconocephalus triops - male

Broad-tipped Conehead - Neoconocephalus triops - Male
Durham County, North Carolina, USA
October 17, 2004
Size: 54 mm
Brown phase, length 54 mm (tip of cone to end of folded wings). Found at a lighted wall about 10:00 p.m. I at first grasped this individual by the hind-leg, which was a big mistake--the leg simply popped off, with no apparent change in the creature's mobility. I learned to grasp firmly, but gently, on the folded wings. One has to not let the head swivel down to nip the fingers, which they try to do. I had tried to net it, but it would not go deep enough in the net to be captured. Eventually it was content to crawl out on the handle and pause for a while.

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Moved from Common Coneheads.

Broad-tipped Conehead
Thanks for sharing these pictures of Broad-tipped Conehead (Neoconocephalus triops). This is the most abundant species of conehead in the south. Identifiable by there extremely blunt tipped cone with fairly large amounts of black.

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