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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) » Common Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum vulgare)
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Orchelimum vulgare - male
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Orchelimum vulgare - Male
Bryan--vacant lot SE of Sam Rayburn school, Brazos County, Texas, USA
July 24, 2021
Found singing in tall grass. Song and cerci seem a best match for O. vulgare, but I have seen that species in the northeastern USA and it looks very different. So either O. vulgare is much larger and golden-colored here, or it is undescribed...

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Contributed by metrioptera on 30 July, 2021 - 4:06pm
Last updated 21 August, 2021 - 12:26pm

Found a similar looking indiv
Found a similar looking individual online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR--IGre2E4
… Hexapoda, 21 August, 2021 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

 
looks right
The one in the video is definitely O. vulgare.

FYI if you want to make a link clickable you can use markup as described in https://bugguide.net/help/markup
… metrioptera, 21 August, 2021 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Another question, do you know
Another question, do you know why meadow katydids would sing from tall trees in the forest in an mostly undisturbed area? I was at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois today, and I heard many O. vulgare, O. nigripes, and possibly O. gladiator calling from pretty far up in deciduous trees and conifers in the middle of the forest. Nothing had been mowed there recently, and I heard other individuals calling from vegetation near water like they normally do.
… Hexapoda, 22 August, 2021 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

 
weird
Odd behavior. O. silvaticum and minor regularly call from treetops, but those three species are usually in low vegetation. Occasionally I hear O. nigripes way high in a tree. Perhaps there are a lot of males dispersing from nearby fields or wetlands.
… metrioptera, 23 August, 2021 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

Moved very tentatively
as I see no other real option for these

Moved from Greater Meadow Katydids.
… metrioptera, 21 August, 2021 - 12:25pm login or register to post comments

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