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Black-kneed Meadow Katydid

Conocephalus melaenus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) middlecat, 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.

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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 China.January 46, February 27, March 60, April 364, May 384, June 332, July 363, August 265, September 259, October 245, November 141, December 73.
China2,559
Taiwan1,642
Taiwan Province1,637
Singapore605
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region293
India286
NORTH REGION282
Japan279
New Taipei260
Malaysia222

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