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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)

Subfamily Phaneropterinae - Phaneropterine Katydids

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Green Katydid - Amblycorypha alexanderi - male

Katydid in Prickly Poppy - Scudderia - female

Nymph? Katydid? and something else - Scudderia

Katydid - Lateral - Microcentrum retinerve - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)

Family Tettigoniidae (Katydids)

Subfamily Phaneropterinae (Phaneropterine Katydids)

Other Common Names

False Katydids

Explanation of Names

Phaneropterinae Burmeister 1838

Numbers

67 species in 14 genera in our area(1), >2000 spp. in almost 90 genera total(2)

Identification

Tympana on foretibia exposed; forewings shorter than hindwings(1)

Overview of genera:

Amblycorypha - 15 spp., e. & c. U.S.

Arethaea - 14 spp., southern

Brachyinsara - 1 sp., CA

Insara - 6 spp., sw U.S.

Inscudderia - 3 spp., se U.S.

Leptophyes - 1 sp., introduced in ne U.S. & Canada from Europe

Microcentrum - 6 spp., most of U.S. except far north

Montezumina - 1 sp., se U.S.

Obolopteryx - 7 spp., sw U.S.

Phaneroptera - 2 spp. of European origin, introduced on the west coast, ne U.S., and so. FL

---no image--- Phrixa - 1 sp., so. FL

Planipollex - 1 sp., so. TX

Platylyra - 1 sp., CA

Scudderia - 8 spp., widwspread

Stilpnochlora - 1 sp., FL

Turpilia - 1 sp., FL

Turpiliodes - 1 sp., TX, may be spreading

Range

worldwide

Print References

Tinkham E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of Midwestern North America. Am Midl Nat 40: 521-663.

Internet References

taxon account • key to genera (1)

Works Cited

1.	Singing Insects of North America

2.	Orthoptera Species File Online

Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 28 August, 2004 - 2:16pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Stephen_WV, John VanDyk, v belov, metrioptera, Arturo Santos
Last updated 7 March, 2023 - 3:32pm

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