Hook Faced Conehead

Hook-faced Conehead (Pyrgocorypha uncinata) cone (profile view), showing how it ends in a sharp, down-turned point.

Hook-faced Conehead (Pyrgocorypha uncinata) male,

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.]