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Mimetica is a genus of leaf-mimic katydids of the family Tettigoniidae, found in northern Latin America.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderOrthoptera
  5. FamilyTettigoniidae

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Specimen records
23
Family
Tettigoniidae
Collections
TAMU
Recorded in
Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Ecuador

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Tettigoniidae
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taxon name
Mimetica
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Mimetica is a genus of leaf-mimic katydids of the family Tettigoniidae, found in northern Latin America.

== Distribution == There are fifteen Mimetica species found in nine countries. Several species have not been studied beyond a few specimens, and are therefore known from very few locations. The northernmost species is Mimetica stigmatica, described from near Guadalajara in central Mexico; the southernmost is Mimetica imperatrix, described from Bucay, Ecuador. No species apart from M. stigmatica are known from Mexico; the next-northernmost species, Mimetica angulosa and Mimetica mortuifolia, have been found in Guatemala. The citizen science project iNaturalist has recorded M. mortuifolia and Mimetica incisa from Belize. Further down the isthmus of Central America, M. incisa can also be found in Nicaragua, as well as in Costa Rica, which is home to six species, five of which were originally described from there (the exception being M. mortulifolia). Three species are known from Panama, four from Colombia and one, Mimetica simoni, from Venezuela.

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