OROPHUS TESSELLATUS (SAUSSURE, 1861)
Brief Description
Distribution: Ecuador, Panama, Columbia, Costa Rica
Stock from: Costa Rica
Size: ♂♀: ca 40mm
General Care: 23-28°C, 70-90% rel. humidity
Feeding: Plant-eating: e.g. Bramble, rose, Fagus sylvatica, Castanea sativa
Breeding: oviposition of single eggs into leaves (e.g. ivy), hatching after approx. 70 days
Advice/Specifics: for oviposition we used ivy or Scindapus; the exchange of the plants from time to time increases their life time and therefore increases the hatching rate.
Stilpnochlora Couloniana/Cuban/Florida Giant Katydid.
PHOEBOLAMPTA CAERULEOTERGUM (HEADS & LAKIN 2008)
Brief Description
Distribution: St. Maarten
Stock from: St. Maarten
Size: ♂: ca. 36 mm ♀: ca. 38mm
General Care: 18-28°C, 70% rel. humidity
Feeding: bramble, rose
Breeding: oviposition of several eggs that are deposited flat and next to each other on plants, hatching after approx. 6-8 weeks
PHOEBOLAMPTA EXCELLENS (WALKER, 1869)
Brief Description
Distribution: Caribbean
Stock from: ?
Size: ♂: ca. 36 mm ♀: ca. 38mm
General Care: 18-28°C, 70% rel. humidity
Feeding: bramble, rose
Breeding: oviposition of several eggs that are deposited flat and next to each other on plants, hatching after approx. 6-8 weeks
(Phoebolampta cearuleotergum) - Katydid
STICTOPHAULA OCELLATA INGRISCH, 1994
STILPNOCHLORA COULONIANA (SAUSSURE, 1861)
For More information about Katydid species see these websites :
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigoniidae
- www.entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/katydids
Stilpnochlora couloniana
STILPNOCHLORA RODGERSAE (EMSLEY, 1970)
Brief Description
Distribution: Ecuador, Columbia
Stock from: south-western Andes of Ecuador and Columbia
Size: ♂:♀: 80 mm
General Care: 15-28°C, 70-90% rel. humidity
Feeding: blamble, raspberry, beech, buddleia, privet, fuchsia
Breeding: oviposition of 30-100 eggs that are deposited next to each other on twigs of (living) plants, hatching after approx. 3 month
Advice/Specifics: differences to Stilpnochlora couloniana
SYSTELLA RAFFLESII WESTWOOD, 1841
Not Sure if it is grasshopper or katydid !!
Still courtesy to : www.saltatoria.info/english/species-a-z/systella-rafflesii/
Brief description :
warm, humid, ovoposition into the substrate
Due to the large quantity of katydids species and the new yearly discoveries we will shortlisted the famous and most colorful and strange shape of these creatures . yet this hobby is at the beginning and may be challenging for the most of hobbyists ..