Grasshoppers & katydid

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Scientific name: Attractomorpha psitaccina de Haan

Common name: Slant-faced grasshopper

Scientific name: Phaneroptera furcifera Stal

Common name: Katydid

Scientific name: Gesonula zonocera mundata Navas

Common name: Taro grasshopper

Female adult katydid on sweetpotato leaf (E. Vasquez).

 

Taro grasshopper adult (E. Vasquez).

Diagnostic summary

  • What they do to plants

     

    - voracious leaf eaters that make big irregular holes before they consume the entire leaf.

  • Worldwide in distribution.

  • Not considered a major pest.

 

Taxonomy

Geographical distribution

Morphology

Damage

Biology and ecology

Host range

Management

References

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