Image: Crested Katydid

Crested Katydid

Female Crested Katydid, Alectoria superba, Collected at Ballera, Queensland. 

Photographer:
Stuart Humphreys
Rights:
© Australian Museum
Order:
Orthoptera
Location:
Australian Museum

Additional information

This individual was found and delivered by Santos staff from the Ballera plant in South West Qld Desert, on the 17th of January 2011. The staff there nicknamed it ‘Warnie’ as it was “green and gold".

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Tags Ballera, Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Alectoria superb, Crested, Katydid, Queensland, Grasshopper, Warnie, Santos,

3 comments

Buglover - 10.02 AM, 24 February 2011
Another successful Chuck Norris enterprise. Well done to our resident bug catcher. Now if only we can get you to do some actual work instead of prancing about the meadows chasing grasshoppers.

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