Common true katydid (Pterophylla camellifolia)

Pterophylla camellifolia
Other common names
Northern true katydid, rough-winged katydid
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Pseudophyllinae
Tribe:	Pterophyllini
Genus:	Pterophylla
Scientific name
Pterophylla camellifolia (Fabricius, 1775)
Geography
Native countries:
Canada United States
Traits
Diet:	Tree leaves, Fruit
Sound
Listen to this species on xeno-canto, SINA, and SOI

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Identification

Identification resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
Singing Insects of North America				View URL

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
NatureServe Explorer				View URL
Songs of Insects	Lang Elliott and Will Hershberger			View URL
Singing Insects of North America				View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species. Read more…

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• John Abrams — 11 specimens collected
• John Friel — 9 specimens collected
• Ted MacRae — 4 specimens collected

• Kent McFarland — 3 specimens collected
• Graham Montgomery — 3 specimens collected
• Ivan Munkres — 3 specimens collected
• Senna Robeson — 3 specimens collected
• Zachary Dankowicz — 2 specimens collected
• William Kuhn — 2 specimens collected
• Megan Carlton — 2 specimens collected
• Clarence Holmes — 2 specimens collected
• Mark Rosenstein — 2 specimens collected
• Isaac Winkler — 2 specimens collected
• Shigetsura Shiga — 1 specimen collected
• Charles Hart — 1 specimen collected
• Selim Peabody — 1 specimen collected
• David Gorsline — 1 specimen collected
• Callie Oldfield — 1 specimen collected
• Erich Hofmann — 1 specimen collected
• Michele Dani Sanchez — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Tyler Grant — 52 specimens identified
• John Abrams — 6 specimens identified
• Patrick Coin — 4 specimens identified

• Ted MacRae — 4 specimens identified
• Russell Engelman — 4 specimens identified
• Kent McFarland — 3 specimens identified
• William Kuhn — 3 specimens identified
• John Friel — 2 specimens identified
• Katja Schulz — 2 specimens identified
• Holger Braun — 2 specimens identified
• Megan Carlton — 2 specimens identified
• Graham Montgomery — 2 specimens identified
• Clarence Holmes — 2 specimens identified
• Ivan Munkres — 2 specimens identified
• David Gorsline — 1 specimen identified
• Callie Oldfield — 1 specimen identified
• Michele Dani Sanchez — 1 specimen identified
• Joseph Felts — 1 specimen identified
• Delano Lewis — 1 specimen identified
• Dmitry Kutcherov — 1 specimen identified