Eastern Urnisa: Adult, profile, Legs Down

Class:

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

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Eastern Urnisa (Urnisa sp 1)

This Photo:

Adult, profile, Legs Down

Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying and Robert Read for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere
This is an undescribed species, that is known about by the experts.
So it's in the Urnisa genus, and labelled "sp 1"; ie "species one".
When a species is formally described it gets a proper binomial name.

This species is

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

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