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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Locusts
  6. Katydids
  7. Shield-backed Katydids

subfamily

Shield-backed Katydids

Tettigoniinae

Includes
79 native 2 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Platycleidini 42 native
  • Tettigoniini 24 native
  • Drymadusini 9 native
  • Plagiostirini 4 native
  • Apteropedetini
  • Pholidopterini
  • Decticini
  • Gampsocleidini

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native shield-backed katydids All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Mormon Cricket Anabrus simplex 5,477 observations
  • Uniform Shieldback Idiostatus aequalis 472 observations
  • Arboreal Pine Katydid Hubbellia marginifera 119 observations
  • Aberrant Shieldback Idiostatus aberrans 71 observations
  • Unarmed Shieldback Idiostatus inermis 67 observations
  • Inyo Shieldback Idiostatus inyo 55 observations
  • Alpine Shieldback Acrodectes philopagus 33 observations
  • Herman's Shieldback Idiostatus hermanii 26 observations
  • Chewaucan Shieldback Idiostatus chewaucan 17 observations
  • Variegated Shieldback Idiostatus variegatus 15 observations
  • Pictet's Shieldback Idiostatus californicus 14 observations
  • Gurney's Shieldback Idiostatus gurneyi 12 observations
  • Apollo Shieldback Idiostatus apollo 11 observations
  • Bechtel's Shieldback Idiostatus bechteli 10 observations
  • Green Shieldback Idiostatus viridis 10 observations
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