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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) » Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Conocephalinae) » Meadow Katydids (Conocephalini) » Greater Meadow Katydids (Orchelimum) » Gladiator Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum gladiator)

Species Orchelimum gladiator - Gladiator Meadow Katydid

Classification · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Internet References
Orchelimum 04a - Orchelimum gladiator - male Female katydid (conehead?) - Orchelimum gladiator - female Orchelimum gladiator - male katydid - Orchelimum gladiator - female Orchelimum gladiator - male Orchelimum gladiator - male Orchelimum gladiator - male Gladiator meadow katydid - Orchelimum gladiator - 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 Conocephalinae (Coneheads and Meadow Katydids)
Tribe Conocephalini (Meadow Katydids)
Genus Orchelimum (Greater Meadow Katydids)
Species gladiator (Gladiator Meadow Katydid)
Identification
Posterior lateral sinus of the pronotum is poorly developed.

Song is a "series of ticks followed by a long shuffling trill" ('Songs of Insects)
Range
Northern half of U.S and southern Canada.
Habitat
Damp meadows of tall grases and sedges and wet edges of marshes.
Season
June-August (BG data). One of the earliest native katydids in much of its range.
Food
Feed on plants but are also predaceous and canibalistic.
Internet References
Singing Insects of North America
Contributed by Ethan Kistler on 7 July, 2007 - 6:53pm
Additional contributions by metrioptera
Last updated 23 July, 2014 - 6:11pm

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