California Thread-leg Katydid

Arethaea brevicauda · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Tettigoniidae

Also called: short-tail thread-legged katydid

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
California Thread-leg Katydid
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY

The California Thread-leg Katydid lives in North America. Its habitat and native range are both recorded as North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It occurs in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 3 of 51 states and DC. Most records: California, Nevada, Arizona.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: endemic in North America; endemic in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

California Thread-leg Katydid photo 2
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY
California Thread-leg Katydid photo 3
Photo: Trevor Van Loon, CC BY
California Thread-leg Katydid photo 4
Photo: harrier, CC BY
California Thread-leg Katydid photo 5
Photo: Bobby McCabe, CC BY

Same family (Tettigoniidae)

Great Green Bush-cricketGreat Green Bush-cricketTettigonia viridissimaCan biteDark Bush-cricketDark Bush-cricketPholidoptera griseoapteraMediterranean KatydidMediterranean KatydidPhaneroptera nanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsFork-tailed Bush KatydidFork-tailed Bush KatydidScudderia furcataDamages trees, gardens or cropsSpeckled Bush-cricketSpeckled Bush-cricketLeptophyes punctatissimaRoesel's Bush-cricketRoesel's Bush-cricketRoeseliana roeselii

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arethaea_brevicauda

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-29 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-29.

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