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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Conocephalinae) » Greater Meadow Katydids (Orchelimum) » Red-headed Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum erythrocephalum)
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Bush katydid? - Orchelimum erythrocephalum
Copyright © 2004 Lois Stacey

Bush katydid? - Orchelimum erythrocephalum
Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA
September 29, 2004
This picture was taken by Dan Chambers during a Carolina Bird Club outing last September. It was identified as a probable Bush Katydid, exactly which one unknown. Can anyone identify it?
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Contributed by Lois Stacey on 20 April, 2005 - 9:25pm
Last updated 31 January, 2006 - 3:02pm

Large Meadow Katydid.
Looks like a female meadow katydid in the genus Orchelimum, possibly O. erythrocephalum, the red-headed larger meadow katydid. We have additional images of that species in the guide which you might want to compare this to. The posture and habitat is right on for this genus. They usually crawl around the other side of the stem at one's approach, playing hide-and-seek:-) Bush katydids are almost totally arboreal by contrast.
… Eric R. Eaton, 21 April, 2005 - 7:11pm login or register to post comments

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