Class: Hexapoda (animals with six legs - includes all insects)
Order: Orthoptera (grasshoppers, katydids and crickets)
ortho = straight and ptera = wings
Family: Tettigoniidae (long-horned grasshoppers)
The long horns indicated above are the very long thin antennae.
Subfamily: Tettigoniinae (shield-backed katydids)
Species: Eremopedes bilineatus
Common Name: White-striped Green Decticid
Date: 2003 August 30
Place: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Pine Springs Visitor Center (on entrance road)
This female has a long sword-like instrument for laying her eggs. Note the long horns (i.e. antennae).
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