Salomona Blanchard, 1853

Naskrecki, Piotr & Rentz, David C. F., 2010, Studies in the orthopteran fauna of Melanesia: New katydids of the tribe Agraeciini from Papua New Guinea (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae), Zootaxa 2664, pp. 1-35 : 4

Salomona Blanchard, 1853

Type species: Acanthodis (Salomona) marmorata Blanchard, 1846

The genus Salomona was revised by Willemse (1959), who included in it 71 Indo-Malayan and Australasian species and subspecies. Additional 4 species were described by Willemse (1961, 1966), and 1 by Vickery and Kevan (1999). Katydids in this genus are large, robust insects, easily recognizable by the combination of a large, flat and wide frons, which is often strongly rugose or punctate, and often with well developed lateral carinae; a short fastigium of vertex, which is at least as wide as half of the scapus; a falcate or subfalcate ovipositor with parallel, smooth margins; and the male subgenital plate with long styli.

These insects have exceptionally well developed mandibular musculature and very sharp mandibles. The species observed in the wild in PNG ( S. godeffroyi and S. bispinosa ) were predaceous, actively hunting other katydids ( Hexacentrus sp. and Conocephalus spp.)