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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) » Stilpnochlora » Giant Katydid (Stilpnochlora couloniana)
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Katydid? - Stilpnochlora couloniana
Copyright © 2006 Sharon

Katydid? - Stilpnochlora couloniana
Tavares, Lake County, Florida, USA
April 8, 2006
Black Hourglass shape on his/her back.
Couldn't find any others like it...
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Contributed by Sharon on 25 April, 2006 - 2:07pm
Last updated 25 May, 2010 - 12:49am

Katydid Nymph
Not full grown, so may be harder to ID.
… Lynette Elliott, 25 April, 2006 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

 
I think I know!
The really bowed hind tibia suggests that this is the nymph of a giant katydid in the genus Stilpnochlora. There is only one U.S. species, restricted to Florida. There are pictures of adults in the guide. We reared a related South American species at the Cincinnati Zoo, and even as nymphs they had those bowed legs:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 25 April, 2006 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

 
You got it!
I clicked on the link on the guide for internet reference:

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/081a.htm

and it shows a nymph just like this one with the black marking!
Thanks Eric!
… Sharon, 25 April, 2006 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments

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