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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) » Shield-backed Katydids (Tettigoniinae) » Ovate Shieldback (Aglaothorax) » Ovate Shieldback (Aglaothorax ovata)
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orthopteran from southern CA - Aglaothorax ovata - female
Copyright © 2009 Joyce Gross

orthopteran from southern CA - Aglaothorax ovata - Female
Short Canyon, Kern County, California, USA
March 27, 2008

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orthopteran from southern CA - Aglaothorax ovata - female orthopteran from southern CA - Aglaothorax ovata - female
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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 5 January, 2009 - 1:19am
Last updated 11 October, 2009 - 9:42pm

female nymph of subspecies longicauda
Moved from Shield-backed Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 11 October, 2009 - 9:42pm login or register to post comments

Katydid nymph.
This is an amazing katydid nymph of some kind, maybe in the genus Neduba, or something related in the Tettigoniinae subfamily. Awesome camouflage!
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 January, 2009 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

 
thanks Eric
I thought it was probably a katydid but its bright colors confused me ... along with my general frustrations with orthopterans (or lack of time spent looking at them). :(
… Joyce Gross, 6 January, 2009 - 2:01am login or register to post comments

 
You're welcome:-)
Hey, literally EVERYbody is confused by the Tettigoniinae. There are several known, but undescribed, GENERA in California alone, so this specimen could easily be among those.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 January, 2009 - 3:13pm login or register to post comments

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