Mottled Matchstick Grasshopper: Male, profile

Mottled Matchstick Grasshopper (Prorifera sp ES01)

Class:

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

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Matchstick Grasshopper (Caelifera: Morabidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Mottled Matchstick Grasshopper (Prorifera sp ES01)

This Photo:

Male, profile

Thank you Dr Michael Kearney for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
Michael explained that both location and the number of antennal segments pointed to this genus.

This species is

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

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