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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) » Stilpnochlora » Giant Katydid (Stilpnochlora couloniana)
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Giant Katydid - Stilpnochlora couloniana - male
Copyright © 2004 Hannah Nendick-Mason

Giant Katydid - Stilpnochlora couloniana - Male
Gainesville, Florida, USA
August 27, 2004
Size: 80 mm
About 8 cm long. Based on the size and general appearance I think it might be the Giant Katydid, but the Key to Katydids leads me away from the false katydid subfamily that contains this genus (if I'm correctly interpreting "tympana on foretibia behind slitlike opening"), so I'm confused. I would appreciate a more expert opinion. Eric? Anyone?

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Giant Katydid - Stilpnochlora couloniana - male Giant Katydid - Stilpnochlora couloniana - male
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Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 28 August, 2004 - 3:21pm
Last updated 25 May, 2010 - 12:52am

Giant katydid indeed:-)
Sure looks like a species of Stilpnochlora to me. We reared a South American species at the Cincinnati Zoo when I worked there, and they look nearly identical to this specimen.
… Eric R. Eaton, 30 August, 2004 - 2:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Eric!
Did you happen to take a look at the Katydid key I linked to? Did I read it right?
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 30 August, 2004 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

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