Images from Singing Insects of North America. 201pmh, Pyrgocorypha uncinata brown male hiding in grass clump
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Pyrgocorypha uncinata, brown male hiding in grass clump. In the caption to this photo on the Singing Insects of North America website, T.J. Walker writes: "By caging individuals in outdoor cages with transplanted clumps of living and dead grass, J. J. Whitesell discovered that they spent the daylight hours concealed as illustrated above." [In this photograph, the male is headdown with only his left forewing and left hind and middle legs visible.]
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- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
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- Orthoptera (grasshoppers and relatives)
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- Tettigonioidea
- Tettigoniidae (katydids)
- Pyrgocorypha
- Pyrgocorypha uncinata (Hook-faced Conehead)
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