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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » True Katydids (Pseudophyllinae) » Western True Katydids (Paracyrtophyllus) » Truncated True Katydid (Paracyrtophyllus robustus)

Species Paracyrtophyllus robustus - Truncated True Katydid

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Is this a Common True Katydid - Pterophylla camellifolia ? - Paracyrtophyllus robustus - male

Truncated True Katydid, Paracyrtophyllus robustus - Paracyrtophyllus robustus

True Katydid male? - Paracyrtophyllus robustus

What is this? - Paracyrtophyllus robustus

Microcentrum (Angle Wing) - Paracyrtophyllus robustus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Family Tettigoniidae (Katydids)

Subfamily Pseudophyllinae (True Katydids)

Genus Paracyrtophyllus (Western True Katydids)

Species robustus (Truncated True Katydid)

Other Common Names

Central Texas Leaf-Katydid

CenTex Leaf-did, nick name

Explanation of Names

Central Texas Leaf-Katydid, first used by Taber & Fleenor (2003) (1) is more descriptive than Truncated True Katydid used on the Singing Insects of North America website.

Numbers

There are four species of True katydids - Subfamily Pseudophyllinae in the U.S.

Size

33-42 mm

Identification

True katydids have leaf-like wings that form cups enclosing the abdomen. (The cupped wings probably serve to amplify their sounds.) Antennae longer and stiffer than in other katydids

Range

Central Texas

Habitat

Oak Woodland

Season

June - September

Food

Feed on Oaks. During outbreaks, they are known for defoliating Post Oak (Quercus stellata) and plateau live oak (Quercus fusiformis).

Life Cycle

Only one generation per year (thankfully!)

Remarks

Katydids normally sing only at night, but during outbreaks they sing day and night (and how!!!)

See Also

Pterophylla camellifolia and Paracyrtophyllus excelsus

Print References

Hebard, M. 1941. The group Pterophyllae as found in the United States (Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 67: 197-219, 2 pl.

Internet References

Singing Insects of North America

Central Texas Leaf-Katydid - Mike Quinn. Includes, sound file recorded during an outbreak near San Antonio in 2007.

Works Cited

1.	Insects of the Texas Lost Pines (W.L. Moody, Jr., Natural History Series, No. 33) By Stephen W. Taber, Scott B. Fleenor

Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 23 January, 2007 - 1:38pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Ethan Kistler
Last updated 10 July, 2007 - 7:12am

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