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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) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Conocephalinae) » Coneheads (Copiphorini) » Common Coneheads (Neoconocephalus) » Round-tipped Conehead (Neoconocephalus retusus)

Species Neoconocephalus retusus - Round-tipped Conehead

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Internet References
Round-tipped Conehead - Neoconocephalus retusus - female Round-tipped Conehead - Neoconocephalus retusus - female Neoconocephalus retusus - male Neoconocephalus retusus - male Round-tipped Conehead? - Neoconocephalus retusus - female Conehead - Neoconocephalus retusus - male Pennsylvania Conehead for ID - Neoconocephalus retusus - male Pennsylvania Conehead for ID - Neoconocephalus retusus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)
Family Tettigoniidae (Katydids)
Subfamily Conocephalinae (Coneheads and Meadow Katydids)
Tribe Copiphorini (Coneheads)
Genus Neoconocephalus (Common Coneheads)
Species retusus (Round-tipped Conehead)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Neoconocephalus retusus (Scudder 1878)
Size
37-52 mm
Identification
Song: A rather weak, beady, continuous buzz heard from within tangles of vegetation, during afternoons as well as at night.
Range
Most of the eastern U.S., north to MA
Habitat
Dry to fairly wet grassy or weedy open areas-roadsides, old fields, edges of marshes.
Season
August - October
Internet References
SINA
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 12 February, 2007 - 9:34pm
Additional contributions by Ethan Kistler, metrioptera
Last updated 21 May, 2016 - 7:11am

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