Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera)

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Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Crickets (several families)

Grasshoppers (several families)

Katydids (Tettigoniidae)

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RogerF wrote:

Yesterday

The last grasshopper (Acridoidea) taxonomist in Australia was (arguably) Ken Key who retired in the 80's. He sorted all the species in the collection and assigned numbers to them if undesribed but only studied and described about 400 species of Morabini and species in the genera Psednura, Monistria, Phaulacridium, Praxibulus and Austroicetes (Acrididae) that have unusable keys in the field. Hopefully DNA and AI will come to the rescue but names still have to be supplied. Perhaps some 'influencer' will take them on

Genus novum 77, sp.1

HelenCross wrote:

Yesterday

It's quite amazing how many relatively large grasshoppers are undescribed

Genus novum 77, sp.1

RogerF wrote:

Yesterday

No thats Dave's name.

If the book was still in print I would give you a copy to take with you to the NT

Genus novum 77, sp.1

HelenCross wrote:

Yesterday

Thanks Roger, they're beautiful! Did you give it the common name?!