Striped Grasshopper Female, S4, dorsal | Striped Grasshopper Female, S2, profile | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Striped Grasshopper (Apotropis vittata) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Female, S5, dorsal🔎 | ||||
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), the Riverland and elsewhere Females are ~26-29mm long; Females: S2 was 26mm, S4 27mm & S5 28mm. The one male we measured was ~17mm long. Inside leg/thigh & tibia are dark grey, almost black. Body colours are variable, the quantity of photo's here is to present some of the variation of colour forms. | |||||
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