Spur-throated Locust: Female, posterior

Spur-throated Locust (Austracris guttulosa)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Spur-throated Locust (Austracris guttulosa)

This Photo:

🔍Female, posterior🔎

Thank you Matthew Connors & Dean (SauceGandhi) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
The Female we caught & measured at Ellura was small for a female, ~55mm tip to tail & ~110mm wingspan.

This species is

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

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