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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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Which Katydid and is the noice maker behind the head supposed to be so open? - Pterophylla camellifolia - male
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Which Katydid and is the noice maker behind the head supposed to be so open? - Pterophylla camellifolia - Male
McDonough, Henry County, Georgia, USA
July 9, 2008

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Which Katydid and is the noice maker behind the head supposed to be so open? - Pterophylla camellifolia - male Which Katydid and is the noice maker behind the head supposed to be so open? - Pterophylla camellifolia - male
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Contributed by Doug on 9 July, 2008 - 8:08pm
Last updated 7 August, 2009 - 1:17pm

Moved
Moved from True Katydids.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 January, 2009 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

Yes.
Yes, this is probably 'the' true katydid, and nothing is wrong with the "stridulatory file," otherwise known as the 'noisemaker.' That part of each wing is highly-modified in the male to not only create sound, but to amplify and broadcast it, too. Knowing how loud they are, that is quite remarkable, don't you think?:-) Beautiful images, thanks for sharing.
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 July, 2008 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

Pseudophyllinae
A true Katydid. I'm not sure what's going on with the "noise maker" though...



You might want to look at this

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/s131k.htm
… Graham Montgomery, 10 July, 2008 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

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