Alice Springs Desert Park
ASDP OrthopteraElephantodeta Katydid (Taeniomenae) Tepper’s Plain Stick Insect Variable Stropis Grasshopper
Alice Springs Desert ParkFauna Flora Nature Theatre Nocturnal House
It is suggested that this undescribed male species is in the genus Elephantodeta, subfamily Phaneropterinae. This was photographed in Alice Springs in Central Australia.1
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Orthoptera
- Suborder: Ensifera
- Superfamily: Tettigonioidea
- Family: Tettigoniidae
- Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
- Genus group: Taeniomenae
- Genus: Elephantodeta
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Matthew Connors for ID and identification of the sex, observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/241087098, iNaturalistAU
- Genus Elephantodeta, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/568098-Elephantodeta
- Australian Orthopteroids, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/australian-orthopteroids
- Elephantodeta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Elephantodeta
ASDP OrthopteraElephantodeta Katydid (Taeniomenae) Tepper’s Plain Stick Insect Variable Stropis Grasshopper
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