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| Song: | A rather weak, beady, continuous buzz heard from within tangles of vegetation, during afternoons as well as at night. |
| Song data: | Excel worksheet and chart (from spectrographic analyses). |
| Identification: | A small conehead (length 37-52 mm) with a cone scarcely longer than wide. Wings extend less than 11 mm beyond hind femurs. Ovipositor slender and 30-40 mm long, much longer than hind femur. |
| Similar species: | N. triops has a wider cone; its wings extend more than 11 mm beyond the hind femurs; its ovipositor is shorter, and it sings earlier in the year. |
| Habitat: | Dry to fairly wet grassy or weedy open areas-roadsides, old fields, edges of marshes. |
| Season: | Aug.–Oct. The last Neoconocephalus to begin calling each summer. |
| Seasonal data: | N. Fla. data. |
| More information: |
subfamily Copiphorinae, genus Neoconocephalus. |
| Nomenclature: | OSF (Orthoptera Species File Online) |
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