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Southern Protean Shieldback
Atlanticus pachymerus
Atlanticus pachymerus, the southern protean shieldback, is a species of shield-backed katydid in the family Tettigoniidae. It is found in North America.
This species is very similar to the related Atlanticus testaceus.
From the article Atlanticus pachymerus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
It lives in the Ozark/Ouachita region of eastern Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas eastward to North and South Carolina, also apparently west into southeastern Oklahoma and northeast Texas. It is replaced further north by A. testaceus.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 450843.