Fork-tailed bush katydid (Scudderia furcata)

Scudderia furcata
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Phaneropterinae
Tribe:	Scudderiini
Genus:	Scudderia
Scientific name
Scudderia furcata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
Geography
Native countries:
Mexico Canada United States
Pest status
Known pest
Sound
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Identification

Identification resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
Singing Insects of North America				View URL
Montana.gov Orthoptera Field Guides				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
xeno-canto				View URL
Montana.gov Orthoptera Field Guides				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.

• Abbott William Nason — 34 specimens collected
• Theodore Henry Frison — 7 specimens collected
• Mark Rosenstein — 4 specimens collected

• Herbert Holdsworth Ross — 3 specimens collected
• Charles Hart — 3 specimens collected
• Blake Bringhurst — 3 specimens collected
• Nathan Gibson Earley — 3 specimens collected
• Mark Olivier — 3 specimens collected
• Carl Otto Mohr — 2 specimens collected
• Stephen Shepherd — 2 specimens collected
• Tammo Reichgelt — 2 specimens collected
• Jeffrey Lee — 2 specimens collected
• Senna Robeson — 2 specimens collected
• Andreas Bolter — 1 specimen collected
• L. Alan Prather — 1 specimen collected
• Kent McFarland — 1 specimen collected
• Dmitry Kutcherov — 1 specimen collected
• Charles Bartlett — 1 specimen collected
• Yianni Patrikios Laskaris — 1 specimen collected
• Zachary Dankowicz — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Tyler Grant — 53 specimens identified
• Russell Engelman — 5 specimens identified
• Stephen Shepherd — 4 specimens identified

• Clarence Holmes — 2 specimens identified
• Senna Robeson — 2 specimens identified
• L. Alan Prather — 1 specimen identified
• Kent McFarland — 1 specimen identified
• Dmitry Kutcherov — 1 specimen identified
• Yianni Patrikios Laskaris — 1 specimen identified
• Zachary Dankowicz — 1 specimen identified
• Blake Bringhurst — 1 specimen identified
• Carrie Seltzer — 1 specimen identified
• Jeffrey Lee — 1 specimen identified
• Ted MacRae — 1 specimen identified
• William Kuhn — 1 specimen identified
• Mark Rosenstein — 1 specimen identified
• Dean Walton — 1 specimen identified
• Austin Kelly — 1 specimen identified
• Nicholas Rocha — 1 specimen identified