Species Microcentrum californicum - California Angle-winged Katydid

Classification · Identification · Range

Big Katydid - Microcentrum californicum - male

Katydid??? if so what kind? - Microcentrum californicum - female

Katydid? - Microcentrum californicum - male

California Angle-wing Katydid - Microcentrum californicum - male

Arizona Katydid for ID - Microcentrum californicum - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)

Family Tettigoniidae (Katydids)

Subfamily Phaneropterinae (Phaneropterine Katydids)

Genus Microcentrum (Angle-wing Katydids)

Species californicum (California Angle-winged Katydid)

Identification

Appearance similar to Greater Angle-winged Katydid, Microcentrum rhombifolium, but songs are different. Compare audio files at these Web pages:

California Angle-wing: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/033a.htm

Greater Angle-wing: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/031a.htm

Very similar to M. retinerve, but found in a different region.

Range

California and Arizona

Contributed by Abigail Parker on 24 September, 2009 - 2:14pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, metrioptera
Last updated 16 August, 2014 - 4:41pm

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