![]() | Southern Bush Katydid S7, Male, ventral | Gumleaf Katydid S1, Late Instar, profile | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | |||||||||||||
Family: | Katydid (Tettigoniidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
Species: | Gumleaf Katydid (Torbia viridissima)This Photo: | S3, Young Nymph | Thank you Matt Campbell & Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Adult Male, ~28mm long. Now that we have both Torbia & Caedicia here we can't be sure which genus the nymphs belong to. See our Caedicia observation for a discussion of differences. Similar Species: Bush Katydid (Caedicia simplex)
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