The Mount Coke false shieldback (''Acilacris furcatus'') is a tettigoniid

orthoptera Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...

n that is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to a single small locality in

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, South Africa. It has not been seen since its original discovery in 1965.

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Tettigoniidae Insects described in 1996 Critically endangered insects Endemic insects of South Africa {{tettigoniidae-stub