False Gumleaf Grasshopper
Pronotum in profile
False Gumleaf Grasshopper
Inside Rear Leg
| False Gumleaf Grasshopper Pronotum in profile | | False Gumleaf Grasshopper Inside Rear Leg | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | False Gumleaf Grasshopper (Goniaeoidea sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | Outside Rear Leg | ||||
Thank you Robert Read & Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~33mm long. Reddish wings contrast with grey body & off-white pronotum & head. Thru the damaged forwings, it looks like the hindwings are dark brown. Wings end with the abdomen. Inside hind legs are black lined with dark red/maroon. They are remarkably plain coloured on the outside hinde legs. The rear tibia goes from green at the top thru blue to purple at the base, with purple feet. Antennae are slightly wedge shaped, with slightly reddish-brown tips from halfway along. Pronotum dorsally with very straight trailing edged triangle. Pronotoum has 3-4 strong sutures. | |||||
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