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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) » Bush Katydids (Scudderia) » Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
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Katydid - Scudderia furcata - male
Copyright © 2012 Derek Hennen

Katydid - Scudderia furcata - Male
Washington County, Ohio, USA
September 22, 2011
Unknown katydid found at the edge of a field.

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Katydid - Scudderia furcata - male Katydid - Scudderia furcata - male
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Contributed by Derek Hennen on 7 April, 2012 - 7:54pm
Last updated 14 April, 2012 - 3:50pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 14 April, 2012 - 3:50pm login or register to post comments

It is a Bush Katydid (genus Scudderia)
Probably a Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
… Alex Harman, 7 April, 2012 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree
A male Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
Your second photo clearly shows the appendage after which this species is named.
… Kelly Fiegle, 8 April, 2012 - 5:54am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you both!
Thank you both!
… Derek Hennen, 8 April, 2012 - 9:35am login or register to post comments

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