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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) » Peranabrus » Coulee Cricket (Peranabrus scabricollis)
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Katydid (?) laying eggs - Peranabrus scabricollis - female
Copyright © 2012 evan_nicholas

Katydid (?) laying eggs - Peranabrus scabricollis - Female
Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada
August 18, 2012
Saw a bunch of these in sage bush country outside of Osoyoos, British Columbia. They have a long ovipositor (in the ground in this picture), and seem willing to eat each other, even when the meal isn't actually dead yet. I suspect some kind of katydid, but would love a confirmation of that.
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Contributed by evan_nicholas on 19 October, 2012 - 8:13pm
Last updated 21 October, 2012 - 1:10am

Summit of Mt. Kobau
Found this site because I searched Grasshoppers Mount Kobau. Took some photos of what looks like the same thing, which I hope to confirm and to share, although the legs look different?


Also, took some photos at the summit of what looks like a different type of cricket, if anyone knows:


Edit: both of mine are evidently Anabrus longipes
… Kelly Davies, 15 August, 2015 - 11:03pm login or register to post comments

A close relative - this is a Coulee Cricket
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 21 October, 2012 - 1:10am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks!
… evan_nicholas, 21 October, 2012 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

Peranabrus scabricollis
Very close to the Mormon cricket, but the roughened pronotum (behind the head) gives it away. Peranabrus scabricollis, the Coulee Cricket, and the first image of it on the site. Where exactly was this? The only place I've seen them is the summit of Mt Kobau.
… James Miskelly, 20 October, 2012 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Oops, you're right - it was M
Oops, you're right - it was Mt. Kobau. My geographic fail - we whipped through the valley pretty quickly, it's all a bit of a blur. Thanks for the clarification!
… evan_nicholas, 20 October, 2012 - 8:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 20 October, 2012 - 7:10am login or register to post comments

I am NOT an expert, but
My guess is:

Mormon Cricket - Anabrus simplex



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… Dan Leeder, 20 October, 2012 - 1:08am login or register to post comments

 
I think you're right
Thanks! Are they actually crickets, or are they a kind of katydid?
… evan_nicholas, 20 October, 2012 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

 
They're katydids
Shieldback katydids in the subfamily Tettigoniinae.
… metrioptera, 20 October, 2012 - 8:28am login or register to post comments

 
Awesome - thanks again!
Awesome - thanks again!
… evan_nicholas, 20 October, 2012 - 8:35am login or register to post comments

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