Giant Crested Grasshopper
S4, Female, Face
Giant Crested Grasshopper
S4, Female, ventral
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| Giant Crested Grasshopper S4, Female, Face | | Giant Crested Grasshopper S4, Female, ventral | | ||
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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, Leg spines | Thank you Robert Read & Matthew Connors (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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