Spotted Bandwing
5th Instar: dorsal
Spotted Bandwing
Adult
| Spotted Bandwing 5th Instar: dorsal | | Spotted Bandwing Adult | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Acrididae) | ||||
| Species: | Spotted Bandwing (Qualetta maculata) | ||||
| This Photo: | 5th Instar: profile | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere They are known for their thick pronotum (shield on the back). It does vary though. The head is also quite distinctive being quite short but high, with the eyes protruding above the "forehead". The abdomen is apricot in colour, and the pronotum has varying shades of white to grey. Thanks to Matthew Connors for picking our miss-id of the nymph. We thought it was Cratilopus; you can see the pronotum shape is wrong for that genus. | |||||
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