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Mountain Katydid

Acripeza reticulata

Photo by Asterope
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Description:

Female mountain katydid - showing her warning colours.
This katydid looks just like a stone until it is disturbed - when it lifts its elytra, hunches the abdomen and displays the colours shown here.

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PublishedSeptember 20, 2011

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