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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) » Lesser Meadow Katydids (Conocephalus) » Prairie Meadow Katydid (Conocephalus saltans)
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3023208 conocephalus - Conocephalus saltans - female
Copyright © 2020 Rob Curtis

3023208 conocephalus - Conocephalus saltans - Female
Badlands NP, South Dakota, USA
August 24, 2020
Shot on same wall as 3023165. Differs from 3023246?
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Contributed by Rob Curtis on 10 October, 2020 - 10:36am
Last updated 11 October, 2020 - 9:26am

Moved
Moved from Lesser Meadow Katydids.
… metrioptera, 11 October, 2020 - 9:26am login or register to post comments

 
Not unsusual for the 2 specie
Not unsusual for the 2 species to be in such proximity?
… Rob Curtis, 11 October, 2020 - 11:17am login or register to post comments

 
i wouldn't think so
I've had both species in the sweep net at the same locality in southern Indiana. Both prefer open dry meadows or prairie-type situations.
… metrioptera, 11 October, 2020 - 8:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Glad to have 2 new species, b
Glad to have 2 new species, but wanted to be sure.
… Rob Curtis, 11 October, 2020 - 8:58pm login or register to post comments

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