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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) » Round-headed Katydids (Amblycorypha) » oblongifolia Group (Amblycorypha oblongifolia Group) » Oblong-winged Katydid (Amblycorypha oblongifolia)

Species Amblycorypha oblongifolia - Oblong-winged Katydid

Classification · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · See Also
Which species? - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - female Oblong-winged Katydid - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male Katydid - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male Round-headed Katydid (Amblycorypha) - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - female Oblong-winged Katydid - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male oblong-winged katydid nymph - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - female oblong-winged katydid - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male oblong-winged katydid - Amblycorypha oblongifolia - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)
Family Tettigoniidae (Katydids)
Subfamily Phaneropterinae (Phaneropterine Katydids)
Genus Amblycorypha (Round-headed Katydids)
No Taxon (oblongifolia Group)
Species oblongifolia (Oblong-winged Katydid)
Identification
Can be green, yellow, or pink.
Range
Eastern U.S.
Food
This species will eat leaves of brambles/blackberries and rose.
Life Cycle
Hatchlings take around 4 months to mature. Eggs usually are laid in soil and during the fall around the first hard frost. They usually hatch the next spring. If exposed to cooler temperatures, they will not hatch until the next spring, even if warmed up.
See Also
Amblycorypha carinata is almost identical.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 17 August, 2006 - 9:41am
Additional contributions by Ethan Kistler, metrioptera, Arturo Santos
Last updated 17 February, 2022 - 12:59am

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