Western False Apotropis: S2, dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Western False Apotropis (Novum48 sp 3)

This Photo:

🔍S2, dorsal🔎

Thank you Robert Read for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Riverland and possibly elsewhere
This is a known, but undescribed species called "Genus Novum 48 Species 3", shown in Rentz et al's book "A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts"; page 167.
Notice the 2 different species, photographed on the same day, are different colour; the 2nd having a green tinge & the orange stripe being less well defined and paler.
Notice the purple antennae & feet.

This species is

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

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