Striped Grasshopper: Female, S5, Pronotum in 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, Pronotum in 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; 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.

This species is

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

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