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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) » True Katydids (Pseudophyllinae) » Western True Katydids (Paracyrtophyllus) » Red Katydid (Paracyrtophyllus robustus)
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Katydids - Paracyrtophyllus robustus - male - female
Copyright © 2012 Gerry Brown

Katydids - Paracyrtophyllus robustus - Male Female
New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas, USA
May 18, 2012
I have no idea what's going on here. Are they mating? Or is one killing the other? Or both!?
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Contributed by Gerry Brown on 18 May, 2012 - 11:16pm
Last updated 4 August, 2012 - 9:04am

Moved
Moved from Katydids.
… metrioptera, 4 August, 2012 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 22 June, 2012 - 10:26am login or register to post comments

probably Paracyrtophyllus robustus -
probably Paracyrtophyllus robustus - Truncated True Katydid
but wait for the katydid experts. Yes, mating pair.

Welcome to Bug Guide!
PS: I added your county as Comal. Parts of NB are in Guadalupe County?
… Maury J. Heiman, 19 May, 2012 - 12:07am login or register to post comments

 
Katydids
Thank you! That red one sure didn't look well at all by the time I went to bed. But there was nothing there when I got up this morning.
… Gerry Brown, 19 May, 2012 - 1:15pm login or register to post comments

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