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Song:
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Bouts of rattling, mostly between 1 and 4 h after sunset, with component sequences lasting 1 sec to 5 min or longer.
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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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Anterior ventral carina of middle femur with 3 or 4 spines; stridulatory vein, viewed from above, exceeding 3 mm and of approximate uniform width; cone as in drawing above. Length 47-59 mm for males and 53-70 for females.
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Similar species:
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N. maxillosus, which has the anterior ventral carina of the middle femur with 0-1 spines; stridulatory vein, viewed from above, less than 3 mm.
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Habitat:
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Tropical hammock.
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Season:
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August; perhaps year-round.
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Remarks:
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N. affinis is common throughout the Caribbean but in the United States is known only from northern Key Largo.
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More information:
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Subfamily Copiphorinae, genus Neoconocephalus.
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References:
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Brush et al. 1985; Greenfield 1983, 1993.
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Nomenclature:
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OSF (Orthoptera Species File Online).
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