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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) » Turpilia » Narrow-Beaked Katydid (Turpilia rostrata)
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Turpilia rostrata - female
Copyright © 2010 KJ

Turpilia rostrata - Female
Long Key Nature Center, Davie, Broward County, Florida, USA
July 29, 2008
A photo from my Unidentified Insect Photos file. The Nature Center is always crawling with katydids in the summer. This one was hanging out on the sidewalk under the lights. I'm living on the edge today and taking a stab at i.d. I'm thinking M. rhombifolium female.
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Contributed by KJ on 8 December, 2010 - 10:45am
Last updated 20 February, 2023 - 12:08pm

It is a related species - Turpilia rostrata.
Microcentrum rhombifolium has a slightly speckled look (pale markings), the yellow stripes are often not so well developed (but it varies), and the top edge of the hind femur is not striped yellow. The head is also broader. They are very similar looking though. The dark eyes on this one are because this photo was taken at night. In daytime the eyes become light-colored.

Moved from Greater Angle-wing Katydid.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 December, 2010 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Struck out on both katydid i.d.'s Oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained! Thank you, not only for correcting my erroneous i.d. but for describing the differences. That's the best way to learn.
… KJ, 9 December, 2010 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

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