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Song:
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A rather weak, beady, continuous buzz heard from within tangles of vegetation, during afternoons as well as at night.
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Song data:
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Excel worksheet and chart (from spectrographic analyses).
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Identification:
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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.
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Similar species:
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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.
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Habitat:
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Dry to fairly wet grassy or weedy open areas-roadsides, old fields, edges of marshes.
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Season:
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Aug.–Oct. The last Neoconocephalus to begin calling each summer.
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Seasonal data:
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N. Fla. data.
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More information:
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Subfamily Copiphorinae, genus Neoconocephalus.
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Nomenclature:
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OSF (Orthoptera Species File Online).
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