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Tab 3
Tab 2
Deadleaf Katydid (Pycnopalpa bicordata)
(Saint-Fargeau et Audinet-Serville, 1825)

 

Synonyms: Pycnopalpa contaminata, Pycnopalpa morata, Pycnopalpa mortuifolia, Pycnopalpa permaculata, Phylloptera bicordata, Locusta bicordata

 

 

 

Pycnopalpa bicordata ranges from eastern Mexico (Veracruz) to Ecuador and northern Argentina. This leaf-mimicking katydid inhabits forests and forest edges in tropical lowlands. Adult: the head and the abdomen are brown; the thorax is brown with a green hourglass-shaped patch composed of two heart-like spots; the forewings are brown at the base, but yellow-green overall, with 1-2 large yellowish-brownish reticulated spots suggestive of damaged leaf tissue. The nymph is mostly brown; reminiscent of a winged seed, a dipteran, or a moth, when at rest.

 

Deadleaf Katydid (Pycnopalpa bicordata)   D39496
Deadleaf Katydid
(Pycnopalpa bicordata)

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Deadleaf Katydid (Pycnopalpa bicordata)   D39495
Deadleaf Katydid
(Pycnopalpa bicordata)

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Deadleaf Katydid (Pycnopalpa bicordata)   D39493
Deadleaf Katydid
(Pycnopalpa bicordata)

Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Deadleaf Katydid (Pycnopalpa bicordata)   D39494
Deadleaf Katydid
(Pycnopalpa bicordata)

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Deadleaf Katydid (Pycnopalpa bicordata)   D39491
Deadleaf Katydid
(Pycnopalpa bicordata)

Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Deadleaf Katydid (Pycnopalpa bicordata)   D39492
Deadleaf Katydid
(Pycnopalpa bicordata)

Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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