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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.
Copyright © 2020-2026 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 16-Apr-2020
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.