Pterophylla camellifolia
Male
Auburn, Alabama
For more information on this species see:
www.bugguide.net/node/view/7075
Comment: This is one of the few North American insects memorialized in verse.
From Oliver Wendell Holmes poem "To an Insect" (1831):
"I love to hear thine earnest voice,
Wherever thou art hid,
Thou test little dogmatist,
Thou pretty KATYDID."