Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Nesoecia cooksonii
Katydid
Herbivore; littoral (in mangroves) to humid forest and pampa zone; January-November; often found in hiding under leaves of Tournefortia shrubs, and in woody debris on forest floors, and in hollows and cracks in standing dead or live trees. The wide geographic and ecological distribution suggests that there may be more than one species, and that the names of McNeill may be valid
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Suborder
Ensifera
Superfamily
Tettigonioidea
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Nesoecia
Species
cooksonii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Nesoecia paludicola McNeill, 1901; Nesoecia cooksoni ensifer; N. pallidus.
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Linsley, E.G. (1977) Insects of the Galápagos (Supplement). Occassional Papers of the Califoria Academy of Sciences 125: 1-50.
- Parkin, P. Parkin D.T., Ewing, A.W. & Ford, H.A. (1972) A report on the arthropods collected by the Edinburgh University Galapagos Islands Expedition, 1968. The Pan-pacific Entomologist 48: 100-107.
- Peck, S.B. (2001) Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 278 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Nesoecia cooksonii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6683. Accessed 1 November 2026.