Calliphona palmensis

Appearance

Like many katydids, C. Palmensis are green in color, and have long antennae that originate between their eyes. Calliphona palmensis, the Palma green bush-cricket, is a insect endemic to La Palma, an island part of the Canary Islands.

Range and habitat

Calliphona palmensis is endemic to the La Palma island in the Canary Islands archipelago. Their known area of occupation is estimated to range between 28 km2 and 200 km2, although their estimated extent of occurrence ranges up to 400km2. C. Palmensis can be found in the treetops and shrubs of laurel forests, and humid Canary pine forests.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Habits

Katydids sing from shrubs or trees. Cave and ground forms in this family are the quiet exceptions.

Song, season, and a named mountain are how many of these insects were split. A silent valley after fire is an empty record.

In crisis

As of 2016, the species is considered endangered by the IUCN red list, due to ongoing habitat reduction caused by wildfires. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added C. Palmensis to the Red List of Threatened Species in 2016. The species is threatened mainly by increasing wildfire frequencies.

Calliphona palmensis is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Calliphona palmensis, Wikidata item Q10439882. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.