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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) » Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Conocephalinae) » Meadow Katydids (Conocephalini) » Greater Meadow Katydids (Orchelimum) » Red-headed Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum erythrocephalum)
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Red-headed Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum erythrocephalum - female
Copyright © 2004 Cotinis

Red-headed Meadow Katydid - Orchelimum erythrocephalum - Female
American Tobacco Trail north of Scott King Road, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
October 1, 2004
These were all over the place in early October in old fields in the lower Piedmont of North Carolina. Males are singing like crazy. This female was perched low to the ground in a power line right-of-way, near a singing male that had attracted my attention.
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Contributed by Cotinis on 5 October, 2004 - 12:32am
Last updated 12 July, 2005 - 1:07am

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