![]() | Crusty Grasshopper S2, Female, profile | Crusty Grasshopper S7, profile | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
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. The "Throat Spur" is also called "Posternal process".
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