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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » True Katydids (Pseudophyllinae) » Pterophylla » Common True Katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia)
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I can't believe she squeezed into those! - Pterophylla camellifolia
Copyright © 2007 Steve Scott

I can't believe she squeezed into those! - Pterophylla camellifolia
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
June 14, 2007
Freshly molted female near my moth light. IS she an adult and the wings just need time to engorge? What genus?
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Contributed by Steve Scott on 21 July, 2007 - 3:52pm
Last updated 8 February, 2008 - 3:26pm

Moved
Moved from Katydids.
… Eric R. Eaton, 8 February, 2008 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

True katydid.
Pterophylla is the genus, haven't learned how to spell the species yet:-) Very nice image!
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 July, 2007 - 5:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Eric. Since there is only one species listed in the genus would that make this a female Pterophylla camellifolia nymph?
… Steve Scott, 23 July, 2007 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

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