Scientific Name: Allonemobius sp.
Family: Gryllidae
Native Range: North America, Pennsylvania
Size:
Active: Summer – early fall
Color and Appearance:
Scientific Name: Dichromorpha viridis
Family: Acrididae
Native Range: Eastern United States including eastern Great Plains, Pennsylvania*
Size: Male: 14-22 mm (0.55 – 0.87 in); Female: 23-30 mm (0.91 – 1.18 in)*
Active: Summer – early fall*
Color and Appearance: “Female coloration is usually uniform, either brown or green. Males have two common color forms, green on upper surface and brown on sides, or light brown upper surface and dark brown sides. Forewings are usually very short, but long-winged individuals do occur. Elegant Grasshopper, D. elegans, is similar, found along east coast. D. viridis has two sulci (grooves) on pronotum, D. elegans just one. D. elegans is also said to have a larger head than D. viridis.”*
From BugGuide.net (https://bugguide.net/node/view/9031)
Scientific Name: Hapithus agitator
Family: Gryllidae
Native Range: Eastern United States
Size: Length: 9-14 mm (0.35 – 0.55 in)*
Active: August – October*
Color and Appearance: Brown; “forewings cover 3/4 or more of abdomen”*
*From BugGuide.net (https://bugguide.net/node/view/6965)
August 10, 2020: I observed the restless bush cricket beside the raspberry canes while I was weed-whacking the grass nearby. She was sitting on yarrow and then climbed onto a leaf of Asiatic dayflower on the way to the safety of the raspberry patch.
Scientific Name: Phyllopalpus pulchellus
Family: Gryllidae
Native Range: Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states, Pennsylvania*
Size: Length: 7 – 9 mm (0.28 – 0.35 in)*
Active: Summer (beginning July – early August). One generation per year.*
Color and Appearance: “Distinctive appearance. Red head/throrax, pale legs, dark bluish-black forewings. Last segment of palp is black and oval flattened shape. Female forewings are convex similar to beetles. Song (of male) is a “rattling, broken trill”, given both day and night.
Left wing of male is clear (2), apparently modified for stridulation.”*
*From BugGuide.net (https://bugguide.net/node/view/592)
