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4 unusual facts about Tettigoniidae


Bioacoustics

Katydid crickets, for example, communicate by sounds with frequencies higher than 100 kHz, far into the ultrasound range.

Bush cricket

Tettigoniidae, an insect family known in British English as Bush crickets

Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana

Because the flowers are made of a sweet chewable tissue (like the pulp of a fruit) they are much favoured by katydids (Tettigoniidae), whose feeding reduces the number of flowers available to be pollinated.

Deception in animals

Similarly, the katydids, a group of grasshopper-like insects found worldwide, are nocturnal and use their cryptic colouration to remain unnoticed during the day.


Similar

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Acanthoproctus diadematus

Acanthoproctus diadematus (Namibia katydid) is an armoured katydid, bush-cricket, or ground cricket endemic to the Namib Desert of southern Africa, where it lives in the tall sand dunes along the Kuiseb River in Namib-Naukluft National Park.

Alectoria

Alectoria (katydids), genus of bush crickets or katydids in the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Phaneropterinae

Buettneria

Buettneria (katydids), genus of bush crickets or katydids in the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Phaneropterinae

Malkinia

Malkinia (genus), genus of bush crickets or katydids in the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Phaneropterinae

Preussia

Preussia (katydids), a genus of bush crickets or katydids in the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Phaneropterinae

Topana

Topana (genus), a genus of bush crickets or katydids in the Tettigoniidae family, subfamily Phaneropterinae

Vossia

Vossia (insect), a genus of bush crickets or katydids in the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Phaneropterinae


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