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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) » Phaneropterine Katydids (Phaneropterinae) » Short-wing Katydids (Obolopteryx) » Common Short-wing Katydid (Obolopteryx brevihastata)

Species Obolopteryx brevihastata - Common Short-wing Katydid

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Habitat · Print References · Internet References
Texas Katydid - Obolopteryx brevihastata - female insect - Obolopteryx brevihastata - male Nymphs? Tettigoniidae/Katydid - Obolopteryx brevihastata - female Common Short-wing Katydid (Dichopetala brevihastata) - Obolopteryx brevihastata - female Common Short-winged Katydid - Obolopteryx brevihastata - female KTD - Obolopteryx brevihastata - male Obolopteryx brevihastata - female Obolopteryx brevihastata? - Obolopteryx brevihastata - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
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 (Phaneropterine Katydids)
Genus Obolopteryx (Short-wing Katydids)
Species brevihastata (Common Short-wing Katydid)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dichopetala brevihastata Morse, 1902
Obolopteryx brevihastata (Morse, 1902) [Cohn, Swanson & Fontana 2014]
Range
northern Mexico into southeast AZ, southern NM, and southwest TX; the only species of its genus ranging into AZ and NM.
Habitat
Deserts and mesquite grasslands (Cohn, Swanson, & Fontana 2014)
Print References
Cohn, Swanson & Fontana. 2014. Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. 203:26.
Internet References
OSF
SINA
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 18 August, 2006 - 4:35pm
Additional contributions by Ethan Kistler, David Ferguson, metrioptera, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 10 June, 2020 - 1:52pm

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