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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) » Round-headed Katydids (Amblycorypha) » oblongifolia Group (Amblycorypha oblongifolia Group) » Florida Oblong-winged Katydid (Amblycorypha floridana)
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Bright red grasshopper - Amblycorypha floridana
Copyright © 2006 Katrina Holten

Bright red grasshopper - Amblycorypha floridana
Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida, USA
August 5, 2006
Size: 2-4 inches??
Found this beautiful critter at Lake Kissimmee State Park around 6pm in an area that (without our current drought situation) would be a wet, floodplain area that's inaccessible. Couldn't get a head shot of it though.

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Bright red grasshopper - Amblycorypha floridana Bright red grasshopper - Amblycorypha floridana
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Contributed by Katrina Holten on 24 August, 2006 - 3:50pm
Last updated 8 October, 2010 - 4:22am

Moved
Moved from Round-headed Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 October, 2010 - 4:23am login or register to post comments

Question
Does any one know why they sometimes occur in pink or red?
… Brittanie McCormack, 14 February, 2007 - 6:47pm login or register to post comments

Amblycorypha sp.
This is a species of Amblycorypha, the only genus I'm aware of in which sometimes there are bright pink individuals.
… Eric R. Eaton, 28 August, 2006 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

Subfamily Phaneropterinae
Your katydid is in the subfamily Phaneropterinae, or false katydids. This is a pretty hard group of katydids to seperate. Good find!
… Ethan Kistler, 24 August, 2006 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

We've seen these a few times,
We've seen these a few times, really interesting, pink and red insead of the usuall green..

… gehan gehale, 24 August, 2006 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

 
very cool- thanks. Now I hav
very cool- thanks. Now I have a direction to go with research
… Katrina Holten, 24 August, 2006 - 4:12pm login or register to post comments

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