Orchelimum gladiator
{{Short description|Species of cricket-like animal}}
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| image = Gladiator Meadow Katydid.jpg
| taxon = Orchelimum gladiator
| authority = Bruner, 1891
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Orchelimum gladiator is a species of katydid that has the common names gladiator meadow katydid and gladiator katydid.
Description
The male is 17 millimeters long and the female is larger, being 18 to 20 millimeters long. The species is pale green with dark brown on its occiput and pronotum.{{cite book |date=1903 |title=Report, Volumes 26-27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-AbAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22orchelimum+gladiator%22&pg=RA1-PA390 |publisher=Indiana. Dept. of Geology and Natural Resources |page=390}} The amount of brown varies per each individual specimen, on both its side and legs. It has reddish eyes.{{cite web |url=http://songsofinsects.com/katydids/gladiator-meadow-katydid |title=Gladiator Meadow Katydid (Orchelimum gladiator) |website=Songs of Insects |access-date=March 30, 2017}} Underneath the prothorax are multiple long spines. Its ovipositor is curved and is close to the length of the abdomen. The ovipositor is also longer than usual among katydids. The wings are slender, with its hind legs at rest and projecting beyond the tips of the fore legs.{{cite book |date=January 2006 |title=National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects & Spiders |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/nationalaudubons00miln/page/433 433–434] |isbn=9780394507637 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/nationalaudubons00miln/page/433 }} Its cerci are yellow and stout.
Habitat
Ecology
Horsehair worms are known to use the gladiator meadow katydid as a host in a parasitic relationship, with the species being one of many katydid hosts.{{cite book |last=T. Gwynne |first=Darryl |date=2001 |title=Katydids and Bush-crickets: Reproductive Behavior and Evolution of the Tettigoniidae |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_svaiSYja8C&dq=%22orchelimum+gladiator%22&pg=PA74 |publisher=Cornell University Press |page=74 |isbn=9780801436550}}