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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) » Bush Katydids (Scudderia) » Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
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Scudderia - Scudderia furcata - female
Copyright © 2006 Lew Scharpf

Scudderia - Scudderia furcata - Female
Auburn, Lee County, Alabama, USA
August 30, 2006
Having a difficult time distinguishing the various Scudderia. Perhaps this is a female curve-tailed Bush Katydid, Scudderia curvicauda but the black tibia are throwing me off. Comments appreciated.
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Contributed by Lew Scharpf on 30 August, 2006 - 3:34pm
Last updated 8 December, 2011 - 10:48pm

Moved
Moved from Scudder's Bush Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 December, 2011 - 10:48pm login or register to post comments

Fork-tailed Katydid...
I believe that this is light/dark version of the more common Fork-tailed Katydid (Scudderia furcata). As seen at http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/063a.htm, some females of the dark version have very dark hind legs, but as the page also suggests, there is no clear definition on the light/pink/dark versions of this katydid because mixes, as you may have here (although I am colorblind, I dont see any pink on this specimen) in a light/dark hybrid.
… Michael Garcia, 30 August, 2006 - 3:42pm login or register to post comments

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