Bush-Cricket (Mecopoda) | 10% Beneficiary to shy-fox

Perhaps, many of you will think that this is another type of grasshopper because of its appearance and I also thought so before going across some sources. It failed me to understand why this species is classified into bush-cricket instead of grasshopper. I finally realize that's just a name, and the pictures would be first my main concern. This bush cricket was an uninvited guess, it stumbled into my house, and swung there for some time before taking off to the barbed wire. Since the light was not good enough in my house, so I managed to hunt it down in my backyard. Up here, it did not make a lot of moves so I could take its photos from various sides.

It has elongated wings with leaf-like veins and brown. The legs are tubular, three-parted, brown, have thorns, forked ends as looking. The hind legs are very long and have two rows of thorns at each corner. This species of bush cricket commonly inhabit suburban residential throughout tropical regions. Bush-cricket belongs to the family Tettigoniidae, in the order Orthoptera

Mecopoda is the type genus of bush-crickets of the subfamily Mecopodinae. Species can be found in India, China, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Malaysia and Melanesia.source

Camera	Nikon D7000
Category	Insect Photography
Lens	Tamron Tele-Macro 70-300