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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) » Anabrus » Mormon Cricket (Anabrus simplex)
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Mormon Cricket? - Anabrus simplex - female
Copyright © 2011 Bob Webster

Mormon Cricket? - Anabrus simplex - Female
West of Snowmass Village (39°12.13'N, 107°5.276'W), about 10,000 feet elevation, Pitkin County, Colorado, USA
August 29, 2007
Laying Eggs

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Mormon Cricket? - Anabrus simplex - female Mormon Cricket? - Anabrus simplex - female
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Contributed by Bob Webster on 17 September, 2011 - 8:05pm
Last updated 6 October, 2011 - 5:20am

a Mormon Cricket (which is really a Katydid)
Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 October, 2011 - 5:20am login or register to post comments

lovely shots; you must be right about sp., too
...although i can claim no expertise with Orthoptera.
… v belov, 18 September, 2011 - 11:57am login or register to post comments

I'm not an expert to give an ID...
...but great shot of an ovipositing female.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 17 September, 2011 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

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