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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 » Long-legged Anabrus (Anabrus longipes)
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shieldback katydid - Anabrus longipes - female
Copyright © 2011 Matthew Priebe

shieldback katydid - Anabrus longipes - Female
Inchelium, Ferry County, Washington, USA
July 30, 2011
This green color form was found on the same day at the same place as the gray one I am also sending, and I am assuming they are the same species. They were in dry ponderosa forests in NE Washington.

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Contributed by Matthew Priebe on 6 December, 2011 - 11:37pm
Last updated 8 December, 2011 - 6:37pm

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… David J. Ferguson, 8 December, 2011 - 12:31am login or register to post comments

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… David J. Ferguson, 8 December, 2011 - 12:30am login or register to post comments

Anabrus longipes
Same genus as Mormon cricket, but the hind legs are longer in proportion to the body and these are more common in WA and BC. They come in bright green and all shades of brown.
… James Miskelly, 7 December, 2011 - 11:47pm login or register to post comments

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Please only link images of the same individual. Thanks.
… Ben Coulter, 7 December, 2011 - 7:52am login or register to post comments

 
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… Matthew Priebe, 7 December, 2011 - 3:08pm login or register to post comments

Maybe
… metrioptera, 7 December, 2011 - 5:14am login or register to post comments

 
Mormon Cricket?
The Guide lists this as Mormon Cricket. Is this different than the Mormon Cricket of the Utah area? I have seen that species (at Dinosaur National Park) and they were much larger and darker than the ones I found here in WA. They were so bloated they could hardly hop more than 2-3 inches. The ones in WA were much more agile and more colorful.
… Matthew Priebe, 7 December, 2011 - 3:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Not completely sure
but looking at the other photos in the guide, it seems that they do vary in coloration , but I don't know about the agility. I've never encountered any species of shieldback katydid other than Metrioptera roeselli.
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