Common Garden Katydid at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Caedicia simplex | 20 Dec 2022 | RogerF | ||
| Lanciana montana | 20 Dec 2022 | Roger |
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User's notes
This is the only one of this colour that I could see om CNM
2 comments
RogerF
wrote:
20 Dec 2022
Occasional purple forms of katydid occur, see cover of David Rentz's katydid book. Sometimes they turn to green when moulting. Lanciana is not often seem at such low altitude.
Roger
wrote:
20 Dec 2022
Thanks Roger, I haven't noticed any Carpenter bees this year, most of the flowers have gone
Location information
- Coordinates 149.108842-35.276621
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Dec 2022 10:32 AM Recorded on
- Roger Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Katydids (Tettigoniidae) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Roger Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Caedicia simplex Scientific name
- Common Garden Katydid Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1588m Recorded at altitude
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