Salt & Pepper Grasshopper: Female, profile

Salt & Pepper Grasshopper (Urnisa guttulosa)

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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