Mecopoda elongata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tan, Ming Kai & Abdul Wahab, Rodzay bin Haji, 2018, Preliminary study on the diversity of Orthoptera from Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, Brunei Darussalam, Borneo, Journal of Orthoptera Research 27 (2), pp. 119-142 : 119

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jor.27.24152

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scientific name

Mecopoda elongata (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

10. Mecopoda elongata (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL Fig. 15E, F

Remarks.-

This large katydid can be heard calling at night among shrubby bushes. The calling song resembles the train call (see Diwakar and Balakrishnan 2007). Sometimes, they were also attracted to light.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubOrder

Ensifera

SuperFamily

Tettigonioidea

Family

Tettigoniidae

SubFamily

Mecopodinae

Genus

Mecopoda