Pale Raspy Cricket S1, Male, dorsal | Pale Raspy Cricket S1, Male, Legs | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
Family: | Leaf-rolling Cricket (Gryllacrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Pale Raspy Cricket (Paragryllacris sp) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S1, Male, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Paul Whitington for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~23mm long Male. Notice the rear end is quite different to Craspedogryllacris sp. There is also the obvious difference of the different coloured head, but colour is often not a good diagnostic tool when it comes to inverts. Notice how the spines on the front leg are so hairy. While not clear in the above photo's, Craspedogryllacris sp exhibits the same morphology. Paul said "I reckon this fits the description of this genus in Rentz and John 1990 pretty well. Here are some of the features that I think are evident in your photos.
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