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What’s this bug?
Sorry about the 1st email. I’ll send the pic this
time! I know this is in the katydid family but I haven’t seen any on your web page of this color. I live in New Braunfels, Texas out in the country and we always have these every year. Both green and pinkesh. We have soooo many of the pinkesh ones this year. It’s terrible! Are all these females??? I hope not! This – Hide quoted text – year they seem to be worse than usual. There even all over my house (like 30+) it’s horrible!! Thanks for your time and info.
Wendy

Hi Wendy,
We now know that this is a Truncated True Katydid, thanks to the efforts of Eric Eaton, who got a response from Mike Quinn who forwarded information provided by Bill Carr and Dr. John Oswald. This normally green Katydid has other color variations including this red coloration. Mike Quinn also provided this link: “Dan, Feel free to link/refer to this page: Central Texas Leaf Katydid http://www.texasento.net/robustus.htm Mike Quinn, Austin”

Update: (07/03/2008) Katydid IDs from Piotr Naskrecki
Hi, I have been looking at the page with unidentified katydids (Katydids 2), and thought I could help with some ID’s. From top to bottom they are: Truncated True Katydid – Paracyrtophyllus robustus

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