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: Phaneropterinae (katydids)
Species: Aretheae sp.
Common Name: thread-legged katydid (not species specific)
Date: 2001 July 15
Place: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Pine Springs Visitor Center (at lights)
With its long thin antennae and legs, this insect is very fragile. Helfer in "How To Know The Grasshoppers, Crickets, Cockroaches and Their Allies" says that males produce a weak high-pitched stridulation. The individual in the photograph is a male.
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