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Nebraska Conehead

Neoconocephalus nebrascensis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) kylealdinger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

27 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in West Virginia.January 8, February 9, March 11, April 19, May 28, June 15, July 11, August 9, September 11, October 9, November 7, December 7.
United States406
West Virginia184
Pennsylvania55
New York35
Ohio31
Maryland27
Canada22
Virginia22
Ontario22
Michigan14

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyKatydids · Tettigoniidae
GenusCommon Coneheads · Neoconocephalus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Nebraska Conehead with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.