Comments on: Two South African Orthopterans: a Parktown Prawn and a Shieldback Katydid

By: Koringkriek from South Africa | What's That Bug?

Koringkriek from South Africa | What's That Bug? — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:53:28 +0000

[...] Tom, This is a Longhorned Orthopteran, Eugaster longipes, and it is called a Koringkriek. We posted a photo back in 2009 when we did all the original research. The Wilkinson’s World Blog calls it an Armored [...]

By: Log In | What's That Bug?

[...] ago we received a similar image which we identified as a ShieldBack Katydid, commonly called a Koringkriek in South Africa. Koringkriek is an Afrikaans word, and it is also known as an Armored Ground [...]

By: CathyR

CathyR — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:39:38 +0000

It is true, Parktown Prawns are one of the colourful aspects of life in Joburg. But harmless they are not -> they can cause nightmares and strange behaviour. My mom was terrified of them and swore she could hear them klomping round the kitchen from the other side of the house. I had to flush them down my toilet as she was scared they would come back and bite her if she flushed them in hers. (??!!) I look slightly less unkindly on them since hearing the eat slugs and snails and are a delicacy for our noo-noo cute Hadeda Ibis, Bostrychia hagedash, who’s range in southern africa has spread in sync withe the building of school sports fields.

By: coreybaz

coreybaz — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:26:59 +0000

Enyaliopsis petersi is in the subfamily Hetrodinae of the Tettigoniidae. The family Bradyporidae doesn’t occur in Southern Africa. There is a mistake in Picker et al.’s Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa but the correct information can be found in the Orthoptera Species File Online http://www.tettigonia.com.

By: Ucksmucks

Ucksmucks — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:28:54 +0000

The exact name of the Bradyporidae is Enyaliopsis petersi.