Colossopus grandidieri

Colossopus grandidieri is a nocturnal bush cricket endemic to southwestern Madagascar.[1] C. grandidieri is the only member of its genus that has been bred successfully in captivity. In captivity, it consumes an omnivorous diet including leaves, fruit, living and dead insects, and processed food including dog food and fish flakes. The pale brown, cigar-shaped eggs are deposited singly in soil, measuring only 6 mm when laid and swelling in size as they develop over three months to a year. Females lay 150 to 200 eggs in a lifetime. Adult females and males have similar coloration, except that the labrum ("upper lip") is orange-red in females and yellow-orange in males. When confronted, adults rear up on their hind legs, spread their forelegs, and open their mandibles in a defensive posture. Adult males make a shrill noise when in this position, and adult females do not make a sound. If the disturbing organism approaches, C. grandidieri attempts to grab it with the forelegs and bite it with the jaws.[2]

Colossopus grandidieri
In Parc Mosa, Ifaty, Madagascar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Genus:	Colossopus
Species:	C. grandidieri
Binomial name
Colossopus grandidieri Saussure, 1899