Striped Grasshopper: Female, S5, profile

Class:

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

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Short-horned Grasshopper (Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Striped Grasshopper (Apotropis vittata)

This Photo:

🔍Female, S5, profile🔎

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. 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. We photographed 5 specimens so fare, in Oct, Nov & March. Females: S2 was 26mm, S4 27mm & S5 28mm.

This species is

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

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