Critically Endangered
Seychelles Crested Groundhopper
Coptottigia cristata
Seychelles Crested Groundhopper is a grasshopper or katydid in the family Tetrigidae (order Orthoptera) — Coptottigia cristata, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Seychelles.
The grasshopper or katydid
Grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets hear and sing. A species may be diagnosed by the song or by a mountain valley.
An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.
Range and habitat
Seychelles Crested Groundhopper is recorded from Seychelles.
GBIF currently lists 3 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.
Life history
Song, season, and a named mountain are how many of these insects were split. A silent valley after fire is an empty record.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Seychelles Crested Groundhopper 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 Q10459425 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.
