Yellow-winged Locust
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Gumleaf Grasshopper
Nymph, profile
| Yellow-winged Locust Instar | | Gumleaf Grasshopper Nymph, profile | | ||
 | 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: | Nymph | ||||
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). | |||||
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