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Common Meadow Katydid

Orchelimum vulgare

1,299 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 Illinois.January 8, February 8, March 13, April 24, May 38, June 16, July 12, August 12, September 15, October 12, November 8, December 7.
United States943
Illinois173
Kansas154
Canada136
Ontario134
Texas132
Missouri88
Michigan80
Oklahoma64
Ohio53

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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