The "False" Katydid

Here's another of the target species to be counted on next Friday's census of crickets and katydids within the city limits of NYC - the Cricket Crawl. It is the Lesser Anglewing Katydid . [Microcentrum retinerve] Though it is in a group called the False katydids, there is nothing "false" about it--that's just the way entomologists differentiate them from another group belonging to the taxon Pterophylla-- the True katydids. Go figure.




Click on the link below to hear the song of the Lesser Anglewing:

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Here's the link for the Cricket Crawl, if you want to take part in this historic event:

http://www.discoverlife.org/cricket