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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) » Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
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October Katydid - Scudderia furcata - female
Copyright © 2010 Stephen_WV

October Katydid - Scudderia furcata - Female
Near Ruraldale, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
October 4, 2006
Is this a Scudder's? I see so many Scudder's nymphs around here.

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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 25 November, 2010 - 4:16am
Last updated 9 September, 2011 - 12:41am

Moved
Moved from Scudder's Bush Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 9 September, 2011 - 12:41am login or register to post comments

Yes she is Scudderia
You have several species in your area, which makes it difficult to say which, because females of some look much alike. I think the two most likely candidates are S. fasciata and S. furcata. S. furcata is most common, and I suspect most likely of the two. Another candidate (but I think the ovipositor should be larger) is S. curvicauda. S. texensis is usually colored differently (i.e. greener ovipositor, etc.), but it could be that one too. Other species look different enough to rule them out.

Moved from Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 25 November, 2010 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

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