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Species Amblycorypha uhleri - Uhler's Virtuoso Katydid

Amblycorypha uhleri - 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 Amblycorypha (Round-headed Katydids)
No Taxon (uhleri Group)
Species uhleri (Uhler's Virtuoso Katydid )
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Amblycorypha uhleri Stal 1876
Range
central TX
Habitat
found 'in weeds and in a thicket on a hillside above the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas...collected on roadside weeds by a pasture in Coryell County, Texas' (Walker 2004)
See Also
Other species in the uhleri group found within the range of A. uhleri (A. rivograndis and A. longinicta) - best distinguished by male song and tegminal length.
Print References
Walker TJ. 2004. The uhleri group of the genus Amblycorypha (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): extraordinarily complex songs and new species. J. of Orthop. Res. 13(2): 169-183.
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