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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) » Hump-winged Crickets (Prophalangopsidae) » Cyphoderris
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Shield-backed Katydid - Cyphoderris
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Shield-backed Katydid - Cyphoderris
Bigfork, Flathead County, Montana, USA
June 9, 2018

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Contributed by timothyaaron on 9 June, 2018 - 8:07pm
Last updated 11 June, 2018 - 1:31pm

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Adult male C. buckelli or C. monstrosa - you'd have to see the subgenital plate a little better to tell which

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… metrioptera, 11 June, 2018 - 1:31pm login or register to post comments

 
I'd bet Cyphoderris monstrosa
I agree the photo doesn't show the subgenital plate clearly, but I'd still bet that this is Cyphoderris monstrosa based on the shape of the terminalia, overall size of the individual, pinkish colouration of the visible ventral surfaces, and the location.
… Kevin Judge, 13 June, 2018 - 11:28am login or register to post comments

Shield-backed Katydid, not su
Shield-backed Katydid, not sure which one.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 10 June, 2018 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

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