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Katydid

Photo by LaurenZarate
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Field Notes

Description:

An amazing Tettigoniid with impossibly long legs and long wings.

Habitat:

Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
LaurenZarate
You are right bayucca, thanks, I meant to say Katydid…..
bayucca
Just being a little bit picky: A Tettigoniidae can't be a grasshopper ;-)... It could be a Phaneropterinae, but I am not 100% sure.

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Mexico Horn of Plenty
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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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PublishedNovember 11, 2013

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