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Handsome Meadow Katydid

Orchelimum pulchellum

3,131 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Virginia.January 28, February 31, March 33, April 55, May 71, June 35, July 29, August 56, September 150, October 79, November 25, December 26.
United States1,990
Virginia425
Maryland359
North Carolina330
Georgia194
South Carolina106
New York95
New Jersey88
Alabama67
Massachusetts53

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
GenusOrchelimum

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