Pygmy Grasshopper
Nymph: profile
Pygmy Grasshopper
Nymph: Fastigium
| Pygmy Grasshopper Nymph: profile | | Pygmy Grasshopper Nymph: Fastigium | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Pygmy Grasshopper (Tetrigidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Pygmy Grasshopper (Tetrigidae sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | Nymph: Face | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors & Josip Skejo for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~5mm long. At first we didn't know what this was, contemplated a Hemipteran bug. After reviewing the photo's we realised it was a Orthopteran, grasshopper. Given it seemed to have a pronotum that covered the whole body we considered a wingless adult female Rockhopper (Buforniina sp). Thank fully there are experts out there willing to help with these unusual species. It turns out to be a Nymph Pygmy Grasshopper! Josip said "It could be either Tetrix irrupta, or maybe Cyphotettix sp. as Matthew suggested." | |||||
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