Sand Dune Grasshopper: Nymph, dorsal

Sand Dune Grasshopper (Urnisiella rubropunctata)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Sand Dune Grasshopper (Urnisiella rubropunctata)

This Photo:

🔍Nymph, dorsal🔎

Other name:

Long-legged Grasshopper

Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Riverland and possibly elsewhere
Incredibly well hidden/camouflaged grasshopper.
All the legs are very long, particularly the middle pair.
It looked liked a spider at first. We coloured one photo to try and bring the grasshopper out more; but it's not how we saw it.
The nymph shown here is probably ~5th instar.
Matthew said "They are one of the only grasshoppers that burries themselves in the sand; for protection/hide themselves".

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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