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Panacanthus
Panacanthus is a genus of conehead katydids found in forests in northwestern South America (western Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru) and Panama, including the western Amazon, the Chocó and the Magdalena River Valley. The common names spiny-headed katydid, spine-headed katydids, spike-headed katydids, thorny devil katydid, thorny devil bush cricket, and similar variations of the sort, do not apply to a single species or to this genus alone, and multiple species are often called by the...
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Panacanthus varius
speciesPanacanthus varius
Spiny Devil Katydid
speciesPanacanthus cuspidatus
Panacanthus pallicornis
speciesPanacanthus pallicornis
Panacanthus lacrimans
speciesPanacanthus lacrimans
Panacanthus spinosus
speciesPanacanthus spinosus
Panacanthus gibbosus
speciesPanacanthus gibbosus
Panacanthus intensus
speciesPanacanthus intensus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 426208.