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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) » Bush Katydids (Scudderia) » Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
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Unknown longhorn beetle - Scudderia furcata
Copyright © 2012 Natalie Vande Pol

Unknown longhorn beetle - Scudderia furcata
6 miles north of Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
June 18, 2011
Size: 3648 x 2736
This particular beetle has been seen frequenting clarkia and poppy flowers for a couple of years now. My daughter has been fond of it and has a couple of other photos as well.
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Contributed by Wildergarten on 2 October, 2012 - 7:59pm
Last updated 5 October, 2012 - 4:07pm

In that location it should be Scudderia furcata
It could be S. mexicana, which is closely similar (nymphs are basically identical), but so far the adults from that far north all seem to be S. furcata.

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 5 October, 2012 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… metrioptera, 3 October, 2012 - 5:03am login or register to post comments

Actually
a Katydid nymph!
… john and jane balaban, 2 October, 2012 - 8:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh. I had thought when I post
Oh. I had thought when I posted it that the legs were uncharacteristic of a beetle, but as should be obvious, I'm no bug guy.

Do you know what species it might be so that I can tell my daughter?

Thanks.
… Wildergarten, 2 October, 2012 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Might be...
...one of the Bush Katydids in the genus Scudderia:



Welcome to BugGuide!
… Ken Wolgemuth, 2 October, 2012 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Here's another photo
I don't know how one posts a thumbnail here yet, but I'll try the ol' html.

… Wildergarten, 2 October, 2012 - 11:20pm login or register to post comments

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