Sand Dune Grasshopper
Nymph, dorsal
Sand Dune Grasshopper
Adult, Camouflage
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| Sand Dune Grasshopper Nymph, dorsal | | Sand Dune Grasshopper Adult, Camouflage | | ||
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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: | Sand Dune Grasshopper (Urnisiella rubropunctata)| This Photo: | Adult, profile | Other name: | Long-legged Grasshopper | Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Riverland and possibly elsewhere Incredibly well hidden/camouflaged grasshopper. All the legs are very long, particularly the middle pair. It looked liked a spider at first. We coloured one photo to try and bring the grasshopper out more; but it's not how we saw it. The nymph shown here is probably ~5th instar. Matthew said "They are one of the only grasshoppers that burries themselves in the sand; for protection/hide themselves".
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