Pediodectes

Pediodectes is a genus of shield-backed katydids in the family Tettigoniidae. There are about nine described species in Pediodectes.^[1][2][3]

Pediodectes stevensonii, Stevenson's shieldback

Pediodectes
Pediodectes haldemanii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Tettigoniinae
Tribe:	Platycleidini
Genus:	Pediodectes Rehn & Hebard, 1916

Species

These species belong to the genus Pediodectes:

• Pediodectes bruneri (Caudell, 1907) (bruner shieldback)
• Pediodectes daedelus (Rehn & Hebard, 1920) (daedalus shieldback)
• Pediodectes grandis (Rehn, 1904) (grand shieldback)
• Pediodectes haldemanii (Girard, 1854) (haldeman's shieldback)
• Pediodectes mitchelli (Caudell, 1911)
• Pediodectes nigromarginatus (Caudell, 1902) (black-margined shieldback)
• Pediodectes pratti (Caudell, 1911)
• Pediodectes stevensonii (Thomas, 1870) (Stevenson's shieldback)
• Pediodectes tinkhami Hebard, 1934 (Tinkham's shieldback)