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Images from Singing Insects of North America. 680pmp, Tafalisca lineatipes mating pair

Image of Robust Bush Cricket

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Photograph of mating pair (female, on right, is eating a spermatophore that she received and removed while mounted on the male). For more on cricket mating see Alexander RD, Otte D. 1967. The evolution of genitalia and mating behavior in crickets (Gryllidae) and other Orthoptera. Misc Publ Mus Zool, Univ Michigan, No. 133. 62 pp.

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