Gumleaf Katydid: S1, Late Instar, dorsal

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:

S1, Late Instar, dorsal

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)

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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