Phaneropterinae (subfamily)

Leaf Katydid, Bush Katydid at Copmanhurst, NSW

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Identification history

	Phaneropterinae (subfamily)	3 Jun 2025	RogerF
	Unverified	2 Jun 2025	MazzV

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This is a green katydid with a very round, green belly, and very long wings. The wings have an off-white / pale fawn line marking the lower edge (photo 1), and a pale green line running from front to back in the centre of each wing. Its ‘feet’ are green as is the whole body, apart from the brown-yellow eyes, and the brown-yellow lines delineating the dorsal side margins of the thorax and joining to combine over the abdomen in a single line continuing to the end of the wings, and narrowing all the way, (photo 2). The colour of these lines looks to be ‘leaking’ into the flat space on top of the thorax, as if the rest of it may well turn into that colour. The legs, too, generally look to be a more brown-green than the green of the body (all photos, especially photo 2). It has long antennae though not the ‘disproportionately-longer-than-body’ of some of the other katydids logged (sightings 4672686, 4672688 & 4672696). It is also different to an otherwise similar looking katydid at sighting 4672790 which is all green and has no yellow dorsal lines, just 2 green-brown lines on the side margins of the thorax.

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Location information

Places Copmanhurst, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
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MazzV NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Latest Katydids (Tettigoniidae) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects

Additional information

25mm to 50mm Animal size

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
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New South Wales

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