Hectoria pontoni Tepper, 1892[1] Alectoria superba is a species of Australian bush crickets or katydids in the subfamily Phaneropterinae.

It is the only species in the monotypic genus Alectoria.

[2][3] The genus is placed in the genus group Ephippithytae; both genus and species were described in 1879 by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl.

[4] The Orthoptera Species File[3] includes the single species Alectoria superba (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1879), which is sometimes called the "Australian crested katydid"; the type locality is Peak Downs, Queensland.