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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:	Gumleaf Grasshopper (Goniaea australasiae)
	This Photo:	🔍Adult Profile🔎
	Thank you Matthew Connors & Anthony Paul for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills, the Flinders Ranges, Coastal Areas and elsewhere Males ~28mm, females ~40-47mm long, with both exhibiting a variety of colour morphs. A very high pronotum crest (median carina) which is not notch to any extent by the 3 lines (sulcus). If there is a notch it'll be small and in the 1st line (near the head).
	Copyright © 2012-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 04-Dec-2012
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.