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Cricket or Grasshopper? Which species? - Atlanticus monticola - male
Copyright © 2007 Leslie

Cricket or Grasshopper? Which species? - Atlanticus monticola - Male
Roland, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
June 1, 2007
Size: approx 1 to 1.25 inch
Contributed by Leslie on 1 June, 2007 - 7:50pm
Last updated 1 December, 2010 - 1:50am

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… David J. Ferguson, 1 December, 2010 - 1:50am

sorry, moved by mistake
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… David J. Ferguson, 1 December, 2010 - 1:33am

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets.
… john and jane balaban, 13 June, 2007 - 4:37pm

Katydid
This is a Least Shieldback (Atlanticus monticola). Only other possibility is Protean Shieldback (Atlanticus testaceus) but their forewings are about half or greater the length of the pronotum.
… Ethan Kistler, 1 June, 2007 - 8:50pm

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