Enyaliopsis, Karsch, 1887

I've mentioned before that I'm disproportionately fond of the Orthoptera. Which makes it difficult to know whether anyone other than me finds this appealing:

Striking a rather dramatic pose in a hedgerow in Chongwe, Lusaka, Zambia, in January 2014. Photographed using Olympus E-420 with Zuiko 40-150mm lens and 3 KOOD magnifiers. 

This is a Koringkriek, or corncricket. These slow-moving little browsers are opportunistic omnivores - which is to say, they eat mostly a handful of plant species, but will happily chow down anything that doesn't flee, from leaves to roadkill, their

Unusually for an animal addendumed with 'cricket', they can't jump; their defence seems to consist entirely of being well camouflaged, rather prickly and not tasting very nice. This is clearly quite effective, though, as only a select few birds and mammals, notably bustards, are recorded as their predators in my not-particularly-comprehensive field guide.

Anyway, on with the show: you may have noticed that, like poor Lophyra cf. differens, this episode is titled only with a genus; with 23 species in the genus, it may be possible for me to whittle them down to one over the next few weeks, but for now that's all you're getting.

This is, then, providing that I'm not mistaken even at the genus level,

Enyaliopsis

(Karsch, 1887)

To put this lovely little katydid in perspective, it also looks like this:

 And sounds, to my ears, not unlike a run-down sewing machine being used in a thicket or hedge. 

It further belongs to the:

 

- Enyaliopsini

- Hetrodinae    

- Tettigoniidae    
(but is sometimes seperated into the Bradyporidae)

See also Tettigonia viridissima.

- Tettigonioidea     

- Ensifera                

See also Stictogryllacris punctata.

- Orthoptera               

See also Humbe tenuicornis, Lobosceliana loboscelis, Cyathosternum prehensile and Heteropternis thoracica.
- Panorthoptera             

- Orthopterida                  

- Polyorthoptera                 
- Anartioptera                       
- Polyneoptera                        

See also Sibylla.

- Neoptera                                 

See also Lophyra cf. differens, Anthia fornasiini, Demetrias atricapillus, Neojulodis vittipennis, Cheilomenes lunata, Melolontha melolontha, Oedemera nobilis, Phyllobius pomaceus, Otiorhynchus atroapterus, Malachius bipustulatus, Synagris proserpina, Vespula germanica, Astata tropicalis, Anthophora furcata, Andrena nigroaenea, Zebronia phenice, Crambus pascuella, Nemophora degeerella, Sphinx ligustri, Laelia robusta, Acada biseriata, Metisella willemi, Anthocharis cardamines, Papilio demodocus, Panorpa germanica, Chloromyia formosa, Senaspis haemorrhoa, Helophilus pendulus, Episyrphus balteatus, Metadon inermis, Diasemopsis meigenii, Dolichotachina caudata, Megistocera filipes, Hagenomyia tristis,  Grypocoris stysi, Ranatra, Anoplocnemis curvipes and Pephricus.

- Metapterygota                             

See also Enallagma cyathigerum, Pseudagrion hageni, Lestinogomphus angustus and Rhyothemis semihyalina.

- Pterygota                                       

- Dicondylia                                        

- Insecta                                                 

- Hexapoda                                              

- Arthropoda                                               

See also Pardosa amentata, Enoplognatha ovata, Alopecosa barbipes, Hyllus argyrotoxus, Argiope bruennichi, Dicranopalpus ramosus and Ligia oceanica.

- Ecdysozoa                                                    

- Protostomia                                                     

See also Burtoa nilotica.

 - Nephrozoa                                                         

See also Megaceryle maxima , Troglodytes troglodytes, Chalcophaps indica, Ardea goliath, Sterna hirundo, Burhinus vermiculatus, Tockus alboterminatus, Thelotornis capensis, Trachylepis varia, Zootoca vivipara, Lygodactylus capensis, Syncerus caffer, Hipposideros vittatus, Rana temporaria, Breviceps poweri, Chiromantis xerampelina and Synchiropus splendidus.

- Bilateralia                                                             

- Eumetazoa                                                              

- Animalia                                                                    

- Eukaryota                                                                     

And that, for now at least, is all, folks! 


As always, my favourite place to go for orthoptera is the orthoptera species file, which includes maps, images and links to papers (many of which are only really useful if you read German, which unfortunately I can only sort-of do, on this and other genera)