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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » Mole Crickets (Gryllotalpidae) » Northern Mole Crickets (Neocurtilla) » Northern Mole Cricket (Neocurtilla hexadactyla)
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Northern Mole Cricket - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female
Copyright © 2004 Cotinis

Northern Mole Cricket - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - Female
Durham County, North Carolina, USA
October 4, 2003
Size: 30 mm
Found at a lighted area at night. Chilled and posed. Length (tip of abdomen to head), 30 mm. Any suggestions as to whether this is male or female?

Compare Southern Mole Cricket, Scapteriscus borellii, which has differently colored pronotum and longer wings:



See close-ups of head, front tarsi in linked image:

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Northern Mole Cricket - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female Northern Mole Cricket - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female
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Contributed by Cotinis on 29 November, 2004 - 10:51pm
Last updated 1 May, 2010 - 6:11am

Very nice photo. & These guy
Very nice photo. & These guys are tough to photograph——quick-moving!

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com
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