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Images from Singing Insects of North America. 201pmh, Pyrgocorypha uncinata brown male hiding in grass clump

Image of Hook-faced Conehead

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Pyrgocorypha uncinata, brown male hiding in grass clump. In the caption to this photo on the Singing Insects of North America website, T.J. Walker writes: "By caging individuals in outdoor cages with transplanted clumps of living and dead grass, J. J. Whitesell discovered that they spent the daylight hours concealed as illustrated above." [In this photograph, the male is headdown with only his left forewing and left hind and middle legs visible.]

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201pmh