Critically Endangered
Cave Katydid
Cedarbergeniana imperfecta
Cave Katydid is a katydid in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera) — Cedarbergeniana imperfecta, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to South Africa.
The katydid
Katydids are long-horned orthopterans. Most species sing from vegetation; a few are cave or ground specialists.
Grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets hear and sing. A species may be diagnosed by the song or by a mountain valley.
Range and habitat
Cave Katydid is recorded from South Africa.
GBIF currently lists 8 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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
Cave Katydid is Critically 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 Wikidata item Q10444353 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
