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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) » Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Conocephalinae) » Meadow Katydids (Conocephalini)

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Copyright © 2011 john and jane balaban

Katydid or Conehead -

Bunker Hill Forest Preserve, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 22, 2011

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 July, 2011 - 10:24pm
Last updated 29 August, 2014 - 10:57am

Thanks,

should we just frass this?

… john and jane balaban, 28 August, 2014 - 7:42pm

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I suppose I'd probably leave it.

It's a good photo (we have a lot of bad ones), and having photos of the nymphs is not a bad thing, even if they are hard to tell apart. It lets people see what the young ones look like, even if we aren't sure what species they are. It's not bad to know that they are hard to tell apart.

But, it's a judgement call.

… David J. Ferguson, 29 August, 2014 - 10:57am

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hmmm

A meadow katydid for sure.

… Jaimes R. Rodriguez, 26 August, 2014 - 8:49pm

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Are you suggesting something more specific than tribe

or are you simply agreeing with the tribe identification?

… john and jane balaban, 26 August, 2014 - 9:01pm

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Conocephalus or Orchelimum

It's hard to identify nymphs of many of these Meadow Katydid species, and even hard to tell which genus. Location and presence of wings narrows it down to two genera. Sometimes nymphs need to be associated with adults (or raised to adulthood) before even the genus is certain. The older they get the more they look like the adults, but until they actually are adults, some of the key features are often not clear.

Having said all that, based on location and coloring, I'd say it is quite likely Conocephalus brevipennis

… David J. Ferguson, 28 August, 2014 - 9:41am

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Moved

Moved from Katydids.

… David J. Ferguson, 18 December, 2011 - 4:42am

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Moved

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… john and jane balaban, 10 October, 2011 - 9:35pm

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… Charley Eiseman, 28 August, 2011 - 3:07pm

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