Crusty Grasshopper: S3, Female, Pronotum

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Short-horned Grasshopper (Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Crusty Grasshopper (Caperrala sp)

This Photo:

🔍S3, Female, Pronotum🔎

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).

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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