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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) » Pediodectes » Black-margined Shieldback (Pediodectes nigromarginatus)
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Shield-backed Katydid - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - female
Copyright © 2006 Deborah Carroll

Shield-backed Katydid - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - Female
Double L Ranch near Richland Springs, San Saba County, Texas, USA
September 17, 2006
Size: 2 " or thereabouts
Just after dark, on the porch when we went out.

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Shield-backed Katydid - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - female Shield-backed Katydid - Pediodectes nigromarginatus - female
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Contributed by Deborah Carroll on 23 November, 2006 - 8:53pm
Last updated 24 September, 2010 - 11:42am

Tentatively moved to species
It seems the best fit, but time may show this to be wrong. The genus is very confusing, and the species are variable. Also, there appear to perhaps be more species than names at present.

Moved from Pediodectes.
… David J. Ferguson, 24 September, 2010 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pediodectes.
… David J. Ferguson, 24 September, 2010 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

looks like nearly mature nymph
I am guessing that it is P. nigromarginatus, but am not sure.
… David J. Ferguson, 12 October, 2009 - 2:09am login or register to post comments

Shield-backed Katydid
Looks like something in the Subfamily Tettigoniinae (Shield-backed Katydid) perhaps in the genus Pediodectes. Check out:

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/katylist.htm#Pediodectes
… Steve Nanz, 25 November, 2006 - 3:27am login or register to post comments

 
Agree on subfamily.
I agree on the subfamily, and suspect Steve is right about the genus, too. Does remind me of a wingless version of Capnobotes, but at that size, if it was a nymph, it would at least have noticeable wing pads....
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 November, 2006 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

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