Leaf Katydid, Bush Katydid at Bega, NSW
Identification history
| Unidentified | 19 Jul 2017 | alirodway |
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4 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
20 Jul 2017
Looks like some sort of weird combination of fireweed and paspalum to me. I'd need to see a bit more context.
alirodway
wrote:
20 Jul 2017
They remind me of paspalum seeds too and are about that size but they look like images of Katydid eggs I saw on the internet. A landholder brought in this specimen from Furner's Rd Bemboka.
PaulWhitington
wrote:
3 Dec 2018
I can confirm that these are katydid eggs and I can confidently name the species that laid them - Torbia perficita, Giant Torbia. In the latest issue of Victorian Entomologist, Linda Rogan shows photos of the adult of this species as well as the eggs laid by it. They are identical to the images in this sighting.
PaulWhitington
wrote:
3 Dec 2018
On reflection, I think I was a bit overenthusiastic in going to the species level with this one. As a developmental biologist I should have known better! So I've changed this to subfamily Phaneropterinae (Bush Katydids).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.841100-36.672470
- Altitude 22.1m
- Places Bega, NSW
Sighting information
- 200 Abundance
- 19 Jul 2017 12:49 PM Recorded on
- alirodway Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Katydids (Tettigoniidae) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) alirodway South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Phaneropterinae (subfamily) Scientific name
- Leaf Katydid, Bush Katydid Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1168.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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