Orange-winged Pardillana
S3, Female, Pronotum, profile
Orange-winged Pardillana
S3, Female, posterior
| Orange-winged Pardillana S3, Female, Pronotum, profile | | Orange-winged Pardillana S3, Female, posterior | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Orange-winged Pardillana (Pardillana sp 11) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S3, Female, Rear Leg Colour🔎 | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying and Ben Kurek for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere The male was considerably smaller than the female @ ~25mm compared with ~38mm for the female. Both have white tipped antennae. The female seemed slightly browner than the male, which was quite gray. The female had obvious orange wings when she flew off; hence the common name. Originally thought to be an unusually coloured Mimetic Gumleaf Grasshopper (Goniaea opomaloides). | |||||
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