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Tettigoniidae in India... RECORD SHOT this is a complementary pic of this insect : <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/27929/looks_like_a_giant_katydid_but_apparently_not.html" title="Looks like a Giant Katydid, but apparently not!?!?!"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2233/27929_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=u%2FkzOdwb6K7nrTVkPfBiTNGH9DI%3D" width="200" height="134" alt="Looks like a Giant Katydid, but apparently not!?!?! This &#039;not so little&#039; girl scared my wife and I while walking home. We brushed against a plant over-hanging the path in our apartment complex and this is what leaped out... :O After making sure my wife was ok, i used my phone as a light and managed this shot using my old Zeiss 35mm f/2.4 (which is a surprisingly good macro). I love the fact that wildlife is everywhere here in India. Ducetia dichotoma,Geotagged,Giant Katydid,India,John rowell,Spring,Stilpnochlora couloniana,adhocphotographer" /></a></figure><br /> No ID yet, still working on it! :P<br /> Ducetia dichotoma,Geotagged,India,Spring Click/tap to enlarge

Tettigoniidae in India... RECORD SHOT

this is a complementary pic of this insect :

Looks like a Giant Katydid, but apparently not!?!?! This 'not so little' girl scared my wife and I while walking home. We brushed against a plant over-hanging the path in our apartment complex and this is what leaped out... :O After making sure my wife was ok, i used my phone as a light and managed this shot using my old Zeiss 35mm f/2.4 (which is a surprisingly good macro). I love the fact that wildlife is everywhere here in India. Ducetia dichotoma,Geotagged,Giant Katydid,India,John rowell,Spring,Stilpnochlora couloniana,adhocphotographer

No ID yet, still working on it! :P

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  1. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
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    Great camouflage, the wings look just like a leaf. Posted 10 years ago
    1. View JohnR's profile
      JohnR
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      Indeed... Still hunting for species id! :/ Posted 10 years ago
      1. View morpheme's profile
        morpheme
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        I can tell you it's a katydid, but id'ing it further may be difficult… so often with insects it comes down to tiny details in the sex organs or something obscure like that. Posted 10 years ago
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          JohnR
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          I have been looking into it, and to the best of my ability, i think it is Ducetia dichotoma.... Posted 10 years ago
          1. View WildFlower's profile
            WildFlower
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            There are only pinned specimens as reference for this species so it hard to compare them. My other concern is that the distribution range of this species is described further away from the location where this specimen was. I will create the species anyway, it looks close enough and they are very hard to identify, it could be another species in the same genus.
            http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/common/editTaxon/Distribution/ShowDistribution.aspx?TaxonNameID=1138284             Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago

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The Ducetia dichotoma

Ducetia dichotoma is a species of katydid found in India. It was described in 1998 by Ingrisch & Shishodia.

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Similar species: Grasshoppers And Crickets
Species identified by WildFlower
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Uploaded Apr 10, 2015. Captured Apr 9, 2015 20:15 in om tours &travels, KG Halli, D Souza Layout, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560090, India.
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  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III
  • 1/60s
  • ISO2000

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