![]() | Giant Crested Grasshopper S4, Female, Head, profile | Giant Crested Grasshopper S4, Female, Leg spines | ![]() | |||
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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: | Giant Crested Grasshopper (Macrolopholia sp)This Photo: | S4, Female, Face | 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) and elsewhere ~40mm long Female (S4, the only one we've captured). We've put a few different profile shots to highlight different aspects of the intricate shapes of this fascinating grasshopper.
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