Giant Crested Grasshopper
Ventral
Black-faced Macrotona
Ventral
| Giant Crested Grasshopper Ventral | | Black-faced Macrotona Ventral | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Black-faced Macrotona (Macrotona australis) | ||||
| This Photo: | Dorsal | ||||
Thank you Robert Read for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere The black face separates this out from the Inland Grasshopper (M. securiformis) in the area. We found one of each species on Ellura on the same day. Robert said "If it has a black face it is a male." He has photographed the female showing the Prosternal Process, that separates it from other macrotonas. | |||||
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