![]() | Salt & Pepper Grasshopper Female, dorsal | Salt & Pepper Grasshopper Female, Pronotum | ![]() | |||
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Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||||
Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | |||||||||||||||
Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
Species: | Salt & Pepper Grasshopper (Urnisa guttulosa)This Photo: | 🔍Female, profile🔎 | Other name: | Salt and Pepper Grasshopper | Thank you Robert Read for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges and elsewhere A large specimen at ~32mm head tip to abdomen tail. The "Posternal process" is also called "Throat Spur" in some species. But as noted here it's quite wide and flat, much less like a spur.
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