Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class: Insecta (Insects)
Order: Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder: Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Family: Tettigoniidae (Katydids)
Subfamily: (?)
Genus: (?)
Specific name: (?)
Explanation of Names: Author of family is Krauss, 1902 - from Greek τεττιξ (τεττιγ-) 'cicada'
Numbers: 243 spp. in 49 genera in our area.
Sizes: 10 to 60 mm or more
Identification: Wings held vertically over body, resembling roof of a house antennae very long, often extending well beyond tip of abdomen
all tarsi with 4 segments (formula 4-4-4), compare crickets (3-3-3), tympana (hearing organs) on front tibiae, ovipositor typically flattened and sword-like.
Food: Most species eat vegetation, some are predatory on other insects.
