The Grasshopper
The Grasshopper is known as the leader of singing insects, and is generally called the Grasshopper. Refers to some singing male insects of the family Katydidae, including the Chinese katydid. Because there are pronunciators around the front wings of the Grasshopper, you can make sounds by rubbing the two wings together.
The body length of male grasshoppers is 35-41 mm, and the body length of females is 40-50 mm. The whole body is bright green or yellow-green. The head is large and the face is nearly straight; the antennae are brown, filamentous, longer than the body; the compound eyes are oval. The pronotum is well developed, covering the middle and posterior chest, forming a shield shape. Forewing veins brown. The male has short wings and has a vocal organ; the female only has wing buds and a saber-shaped ovipositor at the end of the abdomen, which is about 2.5 times as long as the pronotum. There is a hearing organ at the base of the forefoot cavity segments, and the lower edges of the leg segments of the 3 pairs of feet have short black spines and are serrated. The hind feet are well developed and good at leaping. There are often brown longitudinal halo lines on the leg joints.
The Grasshopper is a huge song insect in the family Katydidae, with a body length of up to 55mm (40-55mm), and the female is slightly larger than the male. The whole body has various body colors such as green, light green, light brown, grass white, dark brown and so on. The head is larger and the top is darker, green or brown. The face is long and pale in color, blue or light blue-green. The tips of the teeth are purple-red. The two antennae are filamentous, up to 60mm long, and are brown. Two complex temporal lines have three single eyes. The face leans slightly forward and is basically straight. The pronotum is broad and thick, saddle-shaped, thick, brittle, and green or brown in color. There is a white or light yellow edge on the lower edge of the side area of the back plate. Each chest and abdomen has a pair of cone-shaped spines, the largest on the posterior chest. The anterior edge of the pronotum is straight, and the posterior edge is curved and extends backward.
Male shellac wings are longer, thicker and more prosperous than females. Generally, the length of the forewings of male insects is 14-18mm, while that of female insects is very short, only 6-8mm, and they are unable to make sounds. The male's forewings are equipped with sound files, scrapers and sound mirrors. When the two forewings are rubbed, they can make a beautiful and loud sound. The hind wings have molted. The abdomen is round, with a slightly pointed upturned tail end. There are 10 dorsal plates, which are green or brown, and the abdominal plates are 8 (female) or 9 (male). The female has a saber-shaped ovipositor at the end of its tail, about 29-34mm long. The six legs are long and prosperous, and the hind limbs are powerful. The tarsus is 4-4-4, and the 1-3 tarsal segments are padded. The first tarsal segment of the hind foot is divided into 2 blades. 4, the middle 2, the hind legs are slightly longer than the tibia. All parts of the body are vertically flat or cylindrical, the abdomen is swollen, and the body is thick and long.
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