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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) » Angle-wing Katydids (Microcentrum) » California Angle-winged Katydid (Microcentrum californicum)
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Katydid??? if so what kind? - Microcentrum californicum - female
Copyright © 2010 gooselee

Katydid??? if so what kind? - Microcentrum californicum - Female
Carmichael, Sacramento County, California, USA
August 27, 2010
Size: aprrox 2 1/2 t 3 inches
Shot at night, bug was outside my porch for over a day, on various plante ie. my cactus and geraniums. Only left when i finally thought to go grab a ruler to size it.. Like it knew! :p
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Contributed by gooselee on 27 August, 2010 - 10:08pm
Last updated 25 September, 2010 - 12:52am

OK - let's try that again
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 25 September, 2010 - 12:52am login or register to post comments

Shape of pronotum is like M. californicum
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 24 September, 2010 - 11:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 22 September, 2010 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

I would try
Greater Angle-wing katydid (Microcentrum rhombifolium)
… Kelly Fiegle, 28 August, 2010 - 4:50am login or register to post comments

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