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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) » Angle-wing Katydids (Microcentrum) » Lesser Angle-winged Katydid (Microcentrum retinerve)
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ID request, Katydid - Microcentrum retinerve - male
Copyright © 2013 Philip S Brody

ID request, Katydid - Microcentrum retinerve - Male
Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
September 10, 2013
Size: length 51mm
Came to light. Brown slug like object behind head? Any idea?

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Contributed by Philip S Brody on 11 September, 2013 - 2:20pm
Last updated 11 September, 2013 - 7:56pm

adult male Microcentrum retinerve
The dark coloring is just a spot that males of this species have. Makes it easy to tell the males from the other common species in this genus (which doesn't have the dark spot).

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… David J. Ferguson, 11 September, 2013 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

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