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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) » Round-headed Katydids (Amblycorypha) » oblongifolia Group (Amblycorypha oblongifolia Group) » Oblong-winged Katydid (Amblycorypha oblongifolia)
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Which Microcentrum? - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male
Copyright © 2008 YMerriam

Which Microcentrum? - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - Male
Town of Lysander, Onondaga County, New York, USA
August 28, 2008
Size: 1-1/4" w/out hind legs
Had I known to look, I would have photographed the protonum to look for the distinctive "tooth" of the Microcentrum retinerve. However, everything else about it looks good for that species except my range, here in Central NY.

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Which Microcentrum? - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male Which Microcentrum? - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male
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Contributed by YMerriam on 29 August, 2008 - 3:31pm
Last updated 8 October, 2010 - 2:01am

Moved
Moved from Round-headed Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 October, 2010 - 2:01am login or register to post comments

Not Microcentrum.
This is a male Amblycorypha. Might be impossible to ID from an image alone, as several new species have been split out based solely on differences in their songs.
… Eric R. Eaton, 29 August, 2008 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
So the foremost clue would have been the exceptionally long femur? Moving to the correct page.
… YMerriam, 29 August, 2008 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Roundheaded katydids.
The rounded tips to the front wings (tegmena) are the first clue (much mor angular in Microcentrum), but the overall 'gestalt' has become familiar to me, as it will to you with practice.
… Eric R. Eaton, 30 August, 2008 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

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