Round-tipped Conehead
Neoconocephalus retusus (Scudder, 1878)
Round-tipped Conehead - : https://marylandbiodiversity.com/view/8084
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The electric buzzing is a Round-tipped Conehead. The cheery chirping is a Fall Field Cricket. There are also Japanese Burrowing Crickets and background tree crickets. Baltimore City, Maryland. - Thomas Wilson.

Round-tipped Conehead in Cecil Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) Romain Clément, all rights reserved. - romainclem via iNaturalist.

Round-tipped Conehead in Cecil Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) Romain Clément, all rights reserved. - romainclem via iNaturalist.

Description

Note female's extremely long ovipositor. N. ensiger has a long ovipositor, but it doesn't reach past the wingtips. (B. Woo, pers. comm.)

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Neoconocephalus retusus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Genus: Neoconocephalus
Species:
N. retusus
Binomial name
Neoconocephalus retusus
(Scudder, 1878)

Neoconocephalus retusus, the round-tipped conehead, is a species of katydid or bush cricket in the family Tettigoniidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in the eastern United States and southern Canada.[1][5]

male specimen, Maryland, United States

Adult round-tipped coneheads range from 37 to 52 mm in length, and are commonly found in wet grassy and weedy areas during August, September, and October.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Neoconocephalus retusus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  2. ^ "Neoconocephalus retusus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  3. ^ "Neoconocephalus retusus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  4. ^ a b "Neoconocephalus retusus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  5. ^ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. "Orthoptera Species File Online". Retrieved 2018-04-01.

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