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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » Shield-backed Katydids (Tettigoniinae) » Capnobotes » Sooty Longwing (Capnobotes fuliginosus)
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Conehead Katydid? - Capnobotes fuliginosus
Copyright © 2007 Mary Lou Osmer

Conehead Katydid? - Capnobotes fuliginosus
Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
June 17, 2007
Size: 2.5" inc. wings
This pretty individual likes to cling head-down to a grass stem with its wings and legs all folded up. I couldn't get it to fly or hop...maybe newly molted?

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Conehead Katydid? - Capnobotes fuliginosus Conehead Katydid? w/ finger for size - Capnobotes fuliginosus
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Contributed by Mary Lou Osmer on 17 June, 2007 - 4:31pm
Last updated 10 December, 2007 - 11:56pm

Moved
Moved from Capnobotes.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 10 December, 2007 - 11:56pm login or register to post comments

Capnobotes fuliginosus
I'm really glad you got her (I think I see an ovipisitor) to get her to spread her wings! They'll spread them as a defensive display. Makes a species ID possible. Capnobotes fuliginosus is the only species with smoky black wings like that.
… Jeffrey Cole, 4 November, 2007 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Katydids.
… Ethan Kistler, 8 July, 2007 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

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