Southern Bush Katydid
S6, Male Nymph, dorsal
Southern Bush Katydid
S16, Female, dorsal
| Southern Bush Katydid S6, Male Nymph, dorsal | | Southern Bush Katydid S16, Female, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Katydid (Tettigoniidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Southern Bush Katydid (Tinzeda sororoides) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S7, Male, dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line 1st Record in SA & 2nd in Australia on Atlas: Notice the diagnostic black spots along the top edge of the upper white wing stripe. Matthew kindly id'ed all our Tinzeda sp nymphs as T. sororoides. You can see a pale line which appears to be a ridge above the abdomen behind the pronotum, on the nymphs. With the male it's pink, white in the female. This are actually the edges of the forming hind wings. The posterior shot of the male highlights this quite well. There is also a very pale, broken line underneath the abdomen. These nymph specimens were caught on the same day. Both were ~18mm long. The female has a very knife like, curved, ovipositor. Matthew said "The thick antennal base, white stripe on the pronotum and organge patch on the upper forearm all differentiate these from other species." | |||||
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