Up close with a Dragon Head Katydid. A male Lesina sp.. (IDed with the help of Ming Kai Tan) Selangor, Malaysia.
Face to face
Profile shot
Full body shot.
Lichen mimic katydid, Olcinia sp.
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Unidentified katydid. Krabi, Thailand.
Leaf mimic katydid, Leptoderes ornatipennis.
Beautiful, cryptic katydid (Pseudophyllinae ). I thought it was a dead leaf at first
Molting in progress
Another molting katydid.
A well camouflaged Pseudophyllinae.
Molting in progress. Do not disturb. A male Conehead Katydid (Macroxiphus sumatranus), Selangor, Malaysia.
A newly molted katydid eating its own exoskeleton
Chorotypus gallinaceus leaf mimic grasshopper
Yes, darling, hold my ovipositor tight. Cricket porn. Pahang, Malaysia.
Beautiful Orthopteran we came across at night. Leaf-rolling cricket, Larnaca (Larnaca) cf. fasciata - ID credit: Tan Ming Kai. Selangor, Malaysia.
I thought I was photographing a chirping male cricket. I realized there was another cricket (female) when I post processed the images on my laptop! I think the male was playing a courting song and the female was on top of the male. Night find, Selangor, Malaysia.
Info from Nancy Oecanthinancy: The male raises his wings to sing and to expose the metanotal gland. The female sips from the gland to get her in position for the male to transfer a spermatophore. He then keeps the gland exposed so she will continue to sip from it - and thus prevent her from removing the spermatophore too early.
Cricket ovipositing on a tree trunk. Night find, Selangor, Malaysia. Gryllacrididae (Raspy crickets).
A katydid in threat pose, signalling me not to get any closer . Night find, Selangor, Malaysia. Probably Capnogryllacris fruhstorferi - ID credit: Tan Ming Kai.
Beautiful monkey grasshopper. Erucius sp.- ID credit: Tan Ming Kai. Banjaran Bintang montane forest, Perak, Malaysia.
Huntsman Spider (Sparassidae) with a female Raspy Cricket (Family: Gryllacrididae). prey. Night find, Selangor, Malaysia
A huntsman spider eating a cricket
Crabonidae wasp with cricket prey
Sometimes, they get eaten by lizard
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Forest Leaf Grasshopper, Systella rafflesii
Face to face
Green version of Systella rafflesii
Leaf-mimic grasshopper, Systella rafflesii. Night find, montane forest, Banjaran Bintang, Perak, Malaysia.
This grasshopper resembles the Forest Leaf Grasshopper (Systella sp.) above, except it's vertically challenged, and longer. Trigonopteryx sp. - ID credit: Arthur Anker. Selangor, Malaysia.
A nice looking grasshopper...got away after only one shot.
A male Macroxiphus sumatranus
Portrait of an Onomarchus sp. katydid
The nymph of Macroxiphus sumatranus(?) Ant-mimicking?
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Dragon headed katydid Lesina sp.
Brown katydid, Mecopoda elongata
Unidentified katydid
This one was from Maliau Basin
Also from Maliau Basin
Poecilopsyra octoseriata (Haan, 1842). ID credit: Josip Skejo.
Poecilopsyra octoseriata (Haan, 1842). ID credit: Josip Skejo.
Pseudophyllinae, Phyllomimini
Acauloplacella or something close to this genus. It is a Pseudophyllinae, Phyllomimini (Tettigoniidae)
Amazing camouflage!
This one was eating a caterpillar!
Tetrigidae . Saussurella - S. decurva or a closely related species.
Erucius sp.
Grasshopper. Eritrichius cf. modiglianii - ID credit: Tan Ming Kai. Banjarang Bintang, Perak, Malaysia.
Nymph of Depressacca sp., Agraeciini
Orthopteran love :D
Phaesticus sp.
A newly molted grasshopper
Juvenile Chorotypus sp.
A spiny katydid.
Asiophlugis sp. either A. temasek or A. rete but need close up of abdominal apex for verification - ID credit: Tan Ming Kai & Marcus Ng.
A male.
Grasshopper
Up close with a leaf-rolling cricket (Gryllacrididae: Prosopogryllacris sp.) at night. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Unidentified translucent katydid eating some kind of egg? Selangor, Malaysia.
Newly molted katydid
All images were taken with a 40D, either MP-E65 with MT-24EX, handheld or Sigma 150mm with a 1.4x tele-converter/extender, mostly on tripod.
