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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) » Short-wing Katydids (Dichopetala)

Genus Dichopetala - Short-wing Katydids

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Works Cited
Short-winged Katydid - Dichopetala castanea - male Katydid - Dichopetala brevihastata - male Short-winged Katydid (Dichopetala brevihastata) - Dichopetala brevihastata - female Grasshopper - Dichopetala catinata - male Dichopetala sp. - Dichopetala - male - female Nymphs? Tettigoniidae/Katydid - Dichopetala brevihastata - female Nymphs? Tettigoniidae/Katydid - Dichopetala brevihastata - female 70612 Dichopetala gladiator - Dichopetala - 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 Dichopetala (Short-wing Katydids)
Numbers
8 spp. in our area, 22 spp. total(1)(2)
Size
13-25 mm body length (D. brevihastata)
Identification
Medium-sized, robust katydids, apparently flightless. Forewings of females absent (present as small scales). Males have short forewings.
Range
sw. US(2); D. brevihastata is widespread (se. AZ to so. TX), our other spp. largely restricted to TX(3)
Habitat
Found on brush, bushes, grasses
Season
July-October (D. brevihastata)
Food
Predatory? Some species reported to eat flowers(4)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
2.Orthoptera Species File Online
3.Singing Insects of North America
4.How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies
By Jacques R. Helfer
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 10 November, 2005 - 6:05pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, David Ferguson, v belov
Last updated 7 November, 2010 - 12:21pm

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