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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) » Platyoplus » Gila shieldback (Platyoplus gilaensis)
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Cricket in Phoenix, in the Sonoran Desert of Squaw Peak Park - Platyoplus gilaensis - female
Copyright © 2012 Joe Phillips

Cricket in Phoenix, in the Sonoran Desert of Squaw Peak Park - Platyoplus gilaensis - Female
Phoenix, Squaw Peak Park, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
July 22, 2012
Size: 1 3/4" approx
It looks like a cricket, but it is very different than the crickets
that I see around the house.
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Contributed by Joe Phillips on 23 July, 2012 - 3:58pm
Last updated 7 October, 2013 - 1:47am

Size and measurements fit this species,
and, except for the ovipositor, it looks exactly like the male photographed in the original description of the species.

Moved from Shield-backed Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 7 October, 2013 - 1:47am login or register to post comments

This is a female Shield-back Katydid
She appears to be adult, and my best guess is that she is Ateloplus coconino; however, I am not sure. She looks a great deal like the allotype specimen of the species [shown here at 'Singing Insects of America'], but I don't know how to be certain.

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
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