Montane Katydid
S1, Female, dorsal
Adelaide Hills
Montane Katydid
S1, Female, iso-view
 
                 
Montane Katydid (Tinzeda minor)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)
Family: Katydid (Tettigoniidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Montane Katydid (Tinzeda minor)
This Photo:     🔍S1, Female, profile🔎

Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line
1st on Atlas
1st on iNaturalist
:
Sorry for the old terrible photo's. These are the only 3 we have, requested by Matthew Connors as it's the first on-line record of this species.
We didn't catch inverts back then, so no idea of size.
You can just see her red-tipped ovipositor jutting out by the side of her wings.
David Rentz said in his book 'A Guide to the Katydids of Australia'; "Not a small species, but has 'minor' colouration compared to others.
The ventral margin of the pronotum bears only a narrow white margin. The tegmen has a single white stripe along the leading edge but lacks the 2nd stripe present on several other species".

Copyright © 2004-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 28-Feb-2004
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.