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Eupholidoptera chabrieri schmidti or E. schmidti
Eupholidoptera chabrieri is a species of katydids or bush-cricket in the family Tettigoniidae. Pictured here female, with a very long, slightly curved ovipositor. It has a body about 4 cm long, brown on dorsal side and bright green on ventral and lateral plates, with black patterns on pronotum and hind legs, with bright yellow line on the edge of pronotum plate. Very long and elegant hind legs.
This girl came to visit me in our house, actually... it came from our garden, the part of which is kept wild and is full of various wild Mediterranean vegetation.
Usually counted as a subspecies of E. chabrieri, it is sometimes found as separated species, E. schmidti. At first, I wrongly identified it as Wart-biter, which was later on corrected by Slobodan Ivkovic - many thanks for that.
Spotted on Jul 4, 2015
Submitted on Jul 5, 2015
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