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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » False Katydids (Phaneropterinae) » Angle-wing Katydids (Microcentrum) » California Angle-winged Katydid (Microcentrum californicum)

Species Microcentrum californicum - California Angle-winged Katydid

Classification · Identification · Range
Big Katydid - Microcentrum californicum - male Big Katydid - Microcentrum californicum - male Red-eyed individual - Microcentrum californicum - male Green-eyed individual - Microcentrum californicum - male Katydid nymph - Microcentrum californicum Unknown Katydid Nymph from California - Microcentrum californicum hopper - Microcentrum californicum Katydid??? if so what kind? - Microcentrum californicum - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)
Family Tettigoniidae (Katydids)
Subfamily Phaneropterinae (False Katydids)
Genus Microcentrum (Angle-wing Katydids)
Species californicum (California Angle-winged Katydid)
Identification
Appearance similar to Greater Angle-winged Katydid, Microcentrum rhombifolium, but songs are different. Compare audio files at these Web pages:
California Angle-wing: http://www.musicofnature.com/songsofinsects/iframes/specieslist.html
Greater Angle-wing: http://www.musicofnature.com/songsofinsects/iframes/specieslist.html

Very similar to M. retinerve, but found in a different region.
Range
California and Arizona
Contributed by Abigail M. Parker on 24 September, 2009 - 2:14pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson
Last updated 1 October, 2010 - 7:36pm

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