Orange-lichen Stonehopper
Female, Hind Leg & Abdomen
Ellura
Yellow-winged Locust
Face
 
                      
Orange-lichen Stonehopper (Cratilopus sp ES04)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)
Family: Short-horned Grasshopper (Acrididae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Orange-lichen Stonehopper (Cratilopus sp ES04)
This Photo:     🔍Female, ventral🔎

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Female ~26mm long.
Notice
1. the very 3 dimensional pronotum trailing edge.
2. Black hind shins.
3. Purple hind feet.
4. Black inner hind thighs, with orange an orange stripe along the bottem edge.
One photographed in Nov.

Copyright © 2022-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 20-Nov-2022
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.