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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) » Eastern Shieldbacks (Atlanticus) » Protean Shieldback (Atlanticus testaceus)
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Atlanticus pachymerus - Atlanticus testaceus - female
Copyright © 2012 Sharpe Kathy

Atlanticus pachymerus - Atlanticus testaceus - Female
Pembroke, Lake County, Indiana, USA
June 17, 2012
Size: 2.5 cm
protean shieldback katydid
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Contributed by Sharpe Kathy on 28 June, 2012 - 10:25pm
Last updated 22 September, 2012 - 7:06pm

Moved
Moved from Eastern Shieldbacks.
… David J. Ferguson, 22 September, 2012 - 7:06pm login or register to post comments

Sorry, I usually comment when I identify and/or move things
Anyway, that just means that Jane (or John) moved it to that location from "ID Request", where it resided on BugGuide for a while, until I moved it to the proper species. If you click on that heading/link in the "Moved" message, or the same heading at the top of the page, you will be taken to that lacation. It is a category higher up than the species (it is Order Orthoptera). Basically BugGuide uses a digital filing system mimicking the insect classification heirarchy for folder names.
… David J. Ferguson, 23 August, 2012 - 11:09am login or register to post comments

 
Filing system
That was a very good explanation. Thank you. Very cool insect!
… Sharpe Kathy, 11 May, 2023 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 3 August, 2012 - 12:31am login or register to post comments

 
protean shieldback
? when it says "moved from grasshoppers, katydids, crickets", what does that mean?
… Sharpe Kathy, 22 August, 2012 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 24 July, 2012 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you! I read the instructions and it helped too : )
Thank you! I read the instructions and it helped too : )
… KathySharpe, 9 October, 2012 - 6:17pm login or register to post comments

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