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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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Leaf Bug - Pterophylla camellifolia - female
Copyright © 2009 Stacy Bosarge

Leaf Bug - Pterophylla camellifolia - Female
Fayette, Fayette County, Alabama, USA
June 12, 2009
Size: 2"
I always called these leaf bugs, it flew into my house mid day, took a picture and put it back out. What is the real name for these guys??

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Leaf Bug - Pterophylla camellifolia - female Leaf Bug - Pterophylla camellifolia - female
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Contributed by Stacy Bosarge on 7 September, 2009 - 3:11pm
Last updated 12 October, 2009 - 4:28am

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… David J. Ferguson, 12 October, 2009 - 4:28am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 12 October, 2009 - 4:27am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 7 September, 2009 - 5:18pm login or register to post comments

Looks like a True Katydid (but I'm not an expert)
http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/141a.htm

These reportedly dwell very high in trees -- so you are lucky to have had one fly into your house!
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 7 September, 2009 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree.
Female true katydid.
… Eric R. Eaton, 8 September, 2009 - 1:17pm login or register to post comments

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