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broad-winged tree cricket

Oecanthus latipennis

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Mating pair.
Photograph by T. J. Walker, University of Florida.

Male (at right) has his forewings raised exposing the metanotal gland between the attachments of the hindwings; female is mounting the male in preparation to receiving the spermatophore and feeding on the secretions of the metanotal gland.