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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » Shield-backed Katydids (Tettigoniinae) » Plagiostira » Gillette’s Shieldback (Plagiostira gillettei) » Plagiostira gillettei utahensis
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Female Katydid? - Plagiostira gillettei - female
Copyright © 2007 rpsjms

Female Katydid? - Plagiostira gillettei - Female
Big Water, Kane County, Utah, USA
June 15, 2007
This girl got irate when I tried to remove her from the picnic table. She showed up after a strong wind had been blowing for a few days. Is this a Mescalero Shield-back Katydid?
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Contributed by rpsjms on 22 October, 2007 - 11:06am
Last updated 24 October, 2007 - 7:34pm

This subspecies is interesting.
It looks very different from "typical" P. gillettei and reminds me a lot of P. albonotata. The difference has been bothering me, but there are photos of a paratype specimen on the Orthoptera Species File that match these specimens rather well.
… David J. Ferguson, 1 November, 2009 - 10:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Plagiostira gillettei.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 24 October, 2007 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

Confirmed
Thomas Walker has confirmed this is Gillette's.
… Lynette Schimming, 24 October, 2007 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

Not Sure,
But SINA doesn't show that Katydid in Utah. Check out Gillette's Shieldback here. I'll contact Thomas Walker of SINA and ask him to confirm. If it is Gillette's it will be the first image for bugguide, and since I see that SINA doesn't show a female he may want to use your image for his site as well if you are willing to give him permission.
… Lynette Schimming, 22 October, 2007 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

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