![]() | Crusty Grasshopper S2, Female, profile | Crusty Grasshopper S5, profile | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Crusty Grasshopper (Caperrala sp) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍S3, Female, profile🔎 | ||||
Other name: | Common Wrinkled-headed Grasshopper | ||||
Thank you Robert Read & Matthew Connors for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~30mm long. Purple hind legs. We photographed 6 specimens, 3 females, in Mar (F), Apr, May, Oct & Nov (F). | |||||
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