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fast-tinkling trig

Anaxipha tinnulacita

distribution map for Anaxipha tinnulacita
Dots show county records; shaded area shows likely general distribution.
Filled circles are records based on recorded songs, examined specimens, or both; open circles are for less positively documented records.

The New York record is from a 9/20/2017 email from Brandon Woo in which he reported, “About a week ago I heard an unusual cricket call in an ornamental sumac on Cornell's campus. I recognized it as some sort of Anaxipha and spent a few hours trying to find it, with no luck. I went back the next night with a few friends, and we eventually managed to secure 4 males and 2 females. They were all in recently planted shrubs right near the center of campus, which leads me to believe that they were introduced here; I haven't heard them anywhere else in the area.” This record is noteworthy because Anaxipha exigua is the only other Anaxipha that occurs so far north [map]. In an email of 10/15/2017, Woo reported hearing a group of 8 to 9 male A. tinnulacita calling in landscaped shrubbery in a small city park in Boston, Massachusetts. He managed to collect two males and sent them to David Funk. The stridulatory files of the two specimens had 194 and 195 teeth, which helps confirm their being this species (see Fig. 11, Walker & Funk 2014.)

The following observations were submitted by Wil Hershberger: Jefferson County, West Virginia (heard and observed on 8 September 2019 at Cool Spring Preserve); Morgan County, West Virginia (heard and observed on 27 August 2020 at Old Farm Lane); and Washington County, Maryland (heard and observed on 10 November 2020 at Indian Springs Wildlife Management Area).