ORTHOPTERA
(Australian Katydids -
Tettigoniidae)
   
OO47: Painted Katydid
Nanutarra, WA

OO46: Bush Cricket
Chlorobalius leucoviridis
Gascoyne, WA


 
       
 
The Order Orthoptera contains mostly jumping grasshoppers and crickets, and the strange burrowing and non-hopping ‘Monsters’.

The Family Tettigoniidae is known on different Continents by different names. In the English speaking world as Katydids (USA), Bush Crickets (Africa), and Long-horned Grasshoppers (Australia).

Some of the world’s best leaf imitators belong to this Family.


29 more species available in the collection