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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) » Phaneropterine Katydids (Phaneropterinae) » Bush Katydids (Scudderia) » Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
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Katydid? - Scudderia furcata - male
Copyright © 2018 Joe Leahy

Katydid? - Scudderia furcata - Male
Lakewood, Bear Creek Open Space, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
September 1, 2018

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Contributed by Joe Leahy on 1 September, 2018 - 3:21pm
Last updated 1 September, 2018 - 6:20pm

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Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… metrioptera, 1 September, 2018 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Scudderia furcata - Male
What are those black and white spots on its "elbows" on the first pair of legs?
… Joe Leahy, 1 September, 2018 - 7:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Scudderia furcata
Thanks, Brandon for the ID. I sure learn a lot. I tried to listen to its song but naval gunfire has ruined my hearing. It looks like a simple song on the audiograms.
… Joe Leahy, 1 September, 2018 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

 
The black and white 'spots' o
The black and white 'spots' on the forelegs are the ears - all katydids have their tympana on the front legs.

As for the song...there isn't much to it, just a single 'tsip', repeated every couple of minutes - very difficult to track down in the field!
more info here
… metrioptera, 2 September, 2018 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

 
Scudderia furcata
That is amazing. Ears on the legs! I am deaf in their frequency range so no great loss. Thanks for the info! I had that link already when I was researching your id yesterday.
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