Observations in the SuperFamily: Tettigonioidea
English Name: Long-tail Grasshoppers
Child members
Observed on: 27th January 2010
Added to iSpot: 14th February 2012
Identifications: 4
Agreements: 1
Comments: 4
Observed on: 3rd January 2011
Added to iSpot: 6th February 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 3rd March 2009
Added to iSpot: 23rd January 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 3
Observed on: 25th May 2006
Added to iSpot: 23rd January 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 4
By: Felicity
Observed on: 22nd May 2007
Added to iSpot: 15th January 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 3
By: lize von staden
Observed on: 16th December 2011
Added to iSpot: 7th January 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 1
Description: It jumped onto our widscreen while driving down a path in coastal forest. It is very common in the area, we observed many more individuals during walks in the forest.
Observed on: 15th December 2010
Added to iSpot: 6th January 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 3
Description: Ecology Base: Senior Scout Adventure 2010 A sample of goggas that were captured in the herpetogical traps over 10 days.
By: Prix Burgoyne
Observed on: 13th September 2010
Added to iSpot: 8th December 2011
Identifications: 4
Agreements: 2
Comments: 14
Description: About 4-5 cm long with numerous sharp projections on carapace, single "horn" on forehead.
By: Prix Burgoyne
Location: N14, Benede
Lat/Lng: -28.839, 20.2919
Dry grassy plains with few herbs or shrubs.
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Observed on: 20th October 2006
Added to iSpot: 28th November 2011
Identifications: 3
Agreements: 1
Comments: 9
Description: Fat slow-moving insect with spiked armour
By: anthony
Location: Cederberg
Lat/Lng: 32, 19
They only occur in caves - in the twilight zone. Located them in another set of faults in the Cederberg, as they were originally known only from the Wolkberg caves. Both males and females are wingless. I suspect they feed on lichen and guano.
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Observed on: 6th December 2010
Added to iSpot: 9th September 2011
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 1
Description: See p. 82.3 of Field Guide to Insects of SA. There are others in the same tribe that live under rocks in the N Cape, on hillslopes.
Observed on: 1st July 2011
Added to iSpot: 7th September 2011
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 5
Description: Large ground-cricket, long antennae
