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Spotted Meadow Katydid

Conocephalus maculatus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) pseudoryx, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Japan.January 3, February 3, March 1, April 0, May 7, June 48, July 33, August 26, September 167, October 113, November 60, December 11.
Japan472
China341
India183
Tokyo181
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region140
Singapore138
Taiwan98
Thailand95
Taiwan Province92
Malaysia73

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyKatydids · Tettigoniidae
GenusLesser Meadow Katydids · Conocephalus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Spotted Meadow Katydid with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.