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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) » Shield-backed Katydids (Tettigoniinae) » Pediodectes » Black-margined Shieldback (Pediodectes nigromarginatus)
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Shieldback - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - male
Copyright © 2011 Paul Lenhart

Shieldback - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - Male
Balcones Canyonlands NWR, Beard tract, Burnet County, Texas, USA
September 9, 2010
I found this shieldback in a mixed grass prairie field dominated by Little bluestem and Stillingia texana. Many different species of katydids hang out on the latter.

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Shieldback - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - male Shieldback - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - male
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Contributed by Paul Lenhart on 18 July, 2011 - 9:45pm
Last updated 5 November, 2011 - 6:13am

I think I was wrong - a pale P. nigromarginatus
Also quite common on the Great Plains.

Moved from Stevenson Shieldback.
… David J. Ferguson, 5 November, 2011 - 6:13am login or register to post comments

I may be jumping the gun, but
based on what is visible in the photo, P. stevensonii seems the best match. P. nigromarginatus is similar.

Moved from Shield-backed Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 28 July, 2011 - 1:29am login or register to post comments

looks like Pediodectes stevensonii,
but I didn't double check it. It's really common in grassland areas east from the Rio Grande in TX and NM (including my yard).
… David J. Ferguson, 20 July, 2011 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

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