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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)

Species Scudderia furcata - Fork-tailed Bush Katydid

Classification · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Scudderia (Bush Katydids)
Species furcata (Fork-tailed Bush Katydid)
Identification
Male supra-anal plate large, inflated. Lobes form a deep U, or fork: This is almost identical to S. fasciata, but that species has dark striping on tegmina.
Range
Throughout most of the U.S. and into southern Canada. Replaced in southern California, southern Arizona, and parts of west Texas by closely related Scudderia mexicana.
Habitat
Weedy fields, thickets, forest edges, and meadows (1)
Remarks
Individuals from Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas are often darker-colored or even pink. There is a wide range of color forms in these areas ranging from the typical leaf-green to completely pink.
See Also
Scudderia fasciata
Internet References
Song and other info at Songs of Insects

Singing Insects of North America
Works Cited
1.Guide to Night-Singing Insects of the Northeast
Michael DiGiorgio & John Himmelman. 2009. Stackpole Books.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 1 June, 2005 - 7:21am
Additional contributions by Ethan Kistler, David Ferguson, metrioptera
Last updated 23 September, 2021 - 9:36am

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