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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) » Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Conocephalinae) » Meadow Katydids (Conocephalini) » Greater Meadow Katydids (Orchelimum) » Handsome Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum pulchellum)
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Handsome Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum pulchellum - female
Copyright © 2007 Rick Miller

Handsome Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum pulchellum - Female
Pamlico Community College, Pamlico County, North Carolina, USA
October 12, 2007

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Handsome Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum pulchellum - female Handsome Meadow Katydid? - Orchelimum pulchellum
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Contributed by Rick Miller on 26 October, 2007 - 8:35pm
Last updated 13 September, 2010 - 8:55pm

actually this is a female
The ovipositor has been eaten or broken off, and only the base is still present.
… David J. Ferguson, 13 September, 2010 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

Yes
This is indeed Handsome Meadow Katydid, an apt name don't you think ?
… Philip Chaon, 26 October, 2007 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes!
At one point it crawled onto my hand and tried to bite me, but it couldn't seem to get through my fingertip. It felt weird! I let it keep trying, but it never broke the skin. Is it male or female?
… Rick Miller, 26 October, 2007 - 10:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Male. It has the 2 tooth like
Male. It has the 2 tooth like cerci at the end of it's abdomen.
… Philip Chaon, 26 October, 2007 - 11:16pm login or register to post comments

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