Moved from Short-winged Meadow Katydid.

Hi again! Have a little more time on my hands this evening and just had a look through some of the katydid entries over at the Singing Insects site. I think this may be one of the smaller meadow katydids from the Conocephalus genus, adults of which can be as tiny as 10 mm measured from the head to the tip of the abdomen, and there are several naturally short-winged species to be found in your state. Here are images of some possibilites...

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/225pm.htm
http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/222pm.htm
http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/234pm2.htm

Well, have a look through the species pages and see what you think! This page, with the distinctive cerci of the different males illustrated, may also be of help...

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/g220a.htm

I can't quite make out the profile of the cerci on your specimen well enough to say what's what, but maybe you can blow up your image at your end and make an ID that way.

I don't know my meadow katydids very well, but this looks a lot like an adult male to me, just based on the overall mature look and what appears to be a sound-making 'plate' on his back atop a pair of very short inner wings...kinda reminds me of what you see on some wingless shield-backed katydids. If that's an accurate assessment, those short wings ought to help pin down a species ID for you... Poor guy looks in really good shape to be dying of old age, too...hope he didn't run into any poison or something like that...