Conehead (Copiphorini sp)

About Conehead (Copiphorini sp)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Insects
• Order: Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets
• Family: Katydid

The Copiphorini are a tribe of bush crickets or katydids in the family Tettigoniidae. Previously considered a subfamily, they are now placed in the subfamily Conocephalinae. Like some other members of Conocephalinae, they are known as coneheads, grasshopper-like insects with an extended, cone-shaped projection on their heads that juts forward in front of the base of the antennae.

Source: Wikipedia