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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) » Mexican Bush Katydid (Scudderia mexicana)
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Katydid? - Scudderia mexicana - female
Copyright © 2008 Liora Leah

Katydid? - Scudderia mexicana - Female
Los Alamitos, near Long Beach/Seal Beach, 5 miles inland from Pacific Ocean, Orange County, California, USA
September 1, 2008
Size: 2.25" -2.5"
Can you tell if it's a male or female from it's thorax?

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Katydid? - Scudderia mexicana - female Katydid? - Scudderia mexicana - female Katydid? - Scudderia mexicana - female
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Contributed by Liora Leah on 2 September, 2008 - 1:57pm
Last updated 9 September, 2011 - 1:22am

Looks like Scudderia mexicana
which is sometimes considered a subspecies of S. furcata.

Moved from Scudder's Bush Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 9 September, 2011 - 1:22am login or register to post comments

not from the thorax...
but the ovipositer is generally a good sign that it's a female.
… Adam J Bell, 2 September, 2008 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
well, I saw the ovipositor but didn't know what it was called and wasn't sure if it was male or female anatomy, so now I know!

Found this website that clearly shows male and female fork-tailed bush katydids: http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/063a.htm
… Liora Leah, 2 September, 2008 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

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