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Nsenene
Nsenene is the Luganda name for a long-horned grasshopper (more commonly called bush cricket or katydid) that is a central and south-western Ugandan delicacy as well as an important source of income. The insect is also eaten in neighbouring areas of Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Traditionally in Uganda, ''nsenene'' were collected by children and women. They were given to the women’s husbands in return for a new ''gomasi'' (a traditional dress for women). Although the women were made to do the treacherous work of collecting ''nsenene'', they were never allowed to eat them. It was believed that women who consume ''nsenene'' would bear children with deformed heads like those of a conocephaline bush cricket. Nowadays, ''nsenene'' are consumed by most women in the areas where this insect is traditionally eaten.
==Taxonomy==
''Nsenene'' is often misidentified as ''Ruspolia nitidula''. In fact, ''R. nitidula'' is a Eurasian species. Specimens from southern Africa have been synonymised with this species, but further research may show them to belong in fact to a different species. The species that occurs most commonly in Africa is ''R. baileyi'' and this is actually the correct scientific name of ''nsenene''. This does not exclude the possibility that among the ''nsenene'' caught for consumption there may occasionally be a different species, like ''R. differens'', ''R. persimilis'' or ''R. punctipennis''.
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