For a few weeks, we've been looking for nymphs of these katydids, which we photographed last year:


We found some that we guess are the same species: similar markings, in the right location, no other katydids ever seen in these locations.

We've never seen adult males of this species, and wondered if this one was a male nymph. We mentally elaborated a theory that maybe the males are only around early in the season.
But on examining at home the specimens that looked like males in the field, we think we see ovipositors, short, but otherwise identical seeming in morphology.

This specimen is the most extreme specimen of two we collected that we thought might be males. What I think is the ovipositor on this individual is body 8.5 mm, ovip. 0.8 mm.
Our other collected nymphs fall out this way:

body 9.5 mm -- ovip. 3.5 mm
body 11 mm -- ovip. 2 mm
body 13 mm -- ovip. 6.5 mm (this specimen was very light in color, maybe because it just emerged)
(all measurements after preservation in alcohol)

I'll post more photos on my web site soon. We will be following this species.