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Nymph Katydid? - Neoconocephalus triops - male

Nymph Katydid? - Neoconocephalus triops - Male
Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
August 29, 2009
Size: approx 1.5 inch
We found this today on the driveway. After looking through this site we speculate that it is a Broad-tipped Conehead katydid (Neoconocephalus triops) of the brown variety. We wonder if the tiny wings mean that this is a katydid nymph? And if so, any ideas on which molt? We also noticed some interesting behavior: in response to us getting close the katydid lifted its rear end very high, and stayed like that, head down, for some time. A bit later we found what we thought was an adult of the same species. My daughter Celia took these beautiful images with her Canon Powershot A470.

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Nymph Katydid? - Neoconocephalus triops - male Nymph Katydid? - Neoconocephalus triops - male

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Moved from Common Coneheads.

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Moved from ID Request.

I think you are likely correct
about the species, I'm not certain. It is indeed a nymph. It's in it's last instar (probalby 5th, but some species have 6); you can tell by the large size of the wing pads that are folded upward (progressively smaller in younger instars, and pointing down in first three or four).

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