Duplessis' Agile Katydid

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

It is endemic to Cederberg Mountains in South Africa.

GBIF currently lists 2 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

Duplessis' Agile 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 the English Wikipedia article on Griffiniana duplessisae — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q13647835 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.