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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)

Genus Atlanticus - Eastern Shieldbacks

 
 
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American Shieldback · Davis's Shieldback · Robust Shieldback · Smooth Shieldback · Least Shieldback

Species Atlanticus americanus - American Shieldback
Atlanticus americanus Atlanticus americanus Atlanticus americanus - male Atlanticus americanus - male Atlanticus americanus - male Atlanticus americanus - female Atlanticus americanus - female Atlanticus americanus - female

Species Atlanticus davisi - Davis's Shieldback
Atlanticus davisi - female Atlanticus davisi - male Atlanticus davisi - male Atlanticus davisi - male Atlanticus davisi - male Atlanticus davisi Atlanticus davisi - male Atlanticus davisi - male

Species Atlanticus gibbosus - Robust Shieldback
Eastern Shieldback - Atlanticus gibbosus - male Atlanticus gibbosus - female Atlanticus gibbosus - female Atlanticus gibbosus - female Atlanticus gibbosus - male shieldback? - Atlanticus gibbosus - male shieldback? - Atlanticus gibbosus - male Atlanticus gibbosus - male

Species Atlanticus glaber - Smooth Shieldback
Atlanticus glaber - male Atlanticus glaber - male Atlanticus glaber - male

Species Atlanticus monticola - Least Shieldback
Katydid? - Atlanticus monticola - male katydid - Atlanticus monticola - female Cricket or Grasshopper? Which species? - Atlanticus monticola - male Some Shieldback - Atlanticus monticola - male female robust shieldback katydid/Atlanticus gibbosus - Atlanticus monticola - female Green-backed form of Atlanticus monticola - Atlanticus monticola - male Least shieldback Katydid - Atlanticus monticola - male Least Shieldback - Atlanticus monticola

 
 
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