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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) » Phaneropterine Katydids (Phaneropterinae) » Round-headed Katydids (Amblycorypha) » oblongifolia Group (Amblycorypha oblongifolia Group) » Oblong-winged Katydid (Amblycorypha oblongifolia)

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Copyright © 2005 knapperbill

True Katydid - Amblycorypha oblongifolia -

Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois, USA
July 15, 2005

This is the first katydid that I have seen this season. It wouldn't sit still very well for me to photograph. It seemed that once it knew I had located it, it didn't rely on it's camoflage at all.

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Contributed by knapperbill on 25 July, 2005 - 3:15pm
Last updated 8 October, 2010 - 3:44am

Moved

Moved from Round-headed Katydids.

… David J. Ferguson, 8 October, 2010 - 3:44am

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Seen These

I've seen these at camp out on the porch of our bunk at night. I had on sitting on my finger. He/She was cute!

… Brittanie McCormack, 14 February, 2007 - 6:42pm

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They bite :)

I was camping at the State park near Branson, MO and many were calling in the evening. I tracked the sound down to one, thinking that it was a spcies of cicada that I hadn't heard before and wanting a visual ID. I also had it sitting on my finger, until it bit me!--doesn't break the skin, but good for a startle!

… hug_laura, 6 July, 2007 - 8:17am

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Great shot, wrong ID:-)

This is a wonderful portrait of one of the round-headed katydids in the genus Amblycorypha, probably A. oblongifolia, though I see there are suddenly several more species than the two I was once so familiar with:-) This one is a male. Females lack the stridulatory apparatus (brown wedge near the thorax on this specimen), and have a very large, curved ovipositor.

… Eric R. Eaton, 25 July, 2005 - 6:07pm

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Oops!

Thanks for the correction Eric! The image has been tagged and moved.

… knapperbill, 25 July, 2005 - 7:49pm

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