![]() | Western False Apotropis S1, dorsal | Western False Apotropis S1, profile | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
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.
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