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African Cone-head

Conocephalus conocephalus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) maxencegrm, 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 France.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 1, June 40, July 18, August 17, September 74, October 65, November 24, December 0.
France239
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur145
Occitanie66
Italy64
Spain37
Corse28
Nord-Est22
Centro20
Portugal18
Cataluña/Catalunya15

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 African Cone-head with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.