Red-legged Mallee Grasshopper
S1, Female, dorsal
Red-legged Mallee Grasshopper
S3, Female, dorsal
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| Red-legged Mallee Grasshopper S1, Female, dorsal | | Red-legged Mallee Grasshopper S3, Female, dorsal | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Red-legged Mallee Grasshopper (Pardillana sp ES01)| This Photo: | 🔍S2, Male, dorsal🔎 | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~27mm long male, ~35 to ~40mm long females. Undescribed and incredibly similar to Mimetic Gumleaf Grasshopper (Goniaea opomaloides), but the leg colour differentiates them. Red here, Purple/blue for G. opomaloides. S3 had a very unusual looking abdomen. Typically female grasshoppers have a very consistent looking abdomen; basically two black-tipped upward hooks (which are actually ovipositors. Here (in the abdomen shot) it seems she has retracted them. In other blury photo's the black tips are visible. Similar Species: Mimetic Gumleaf Grasshopper (Goniaea opomaloides)
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