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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) » Arizona Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum unispina)
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Western Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum unispina - male
Copyright © 2009 Dave Beaudette

Western Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum unispina - Male
Fort Huachuca, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
June 20, 2009
Size: 20.5 mm body length
Is this the western edition of Conocephalus fasciatus? Picnic area in riparian. Found is thick green grass. Elevation: 5168 feet. Cerci are not green but reddish or orange. 32 mm total length.

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Contributed by Dave Beaudette on 24 June, 2009 - 8:46pm
Last updated 19 October, 2011 - 10:28pm

See comments under the brown nymph from the same location
Moved from Western Meadow Katydid.
… David J. Ferguson, 19 October, 2011 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

Has been bugging me since I looked at the female
from the same place. The shape of the head, the color pattern, and the long wings all match the female (though she is brown), while the other C. strictus from Arizona all look quite different. The long wings can occur in most any species, but together with the other traits, I've decided to put it with the female. The cerci seem more slender than drawings of those of C. fasciatus & C. vicinus, but they look distinctly different from the cerci of C. strictus from the same region.

By the way, C. vicinus is one of those on the fence names. Some consider it a distinct species, others a synonym or regional variant of C. fasciatus.

Moved from Straight-lanced Meadow Katydid.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 November, 2010 - 6:44am login or register to post comments

 
Very nice !
Thanks for dealing with these photos of vicinus from Fort Huachuca. I am finding vicinus at Fort Huachuca only in lush grasses in the riparian zone. The vicinus here at the fort appear to have a different life history than strictus. Adults of vicinis appear in early summer; those of strictus in late summer.
… Dave Beaudette, 30 November, 2010 - 9:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Western Meadow Katydid.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 September, 2010 - 12:37am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… Eric R. Eaton, 9 September, 2009 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Eric, for the species ID.
… Dave Beaudette, 16 September, 2009 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

Maybe:-)
Conocephalus for certain, but the most common species I've seen is C. strictus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 June, 2009 - 8:53pm login or register to post comments

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