![]() | Crusty Grasshopper S11, Female, profile | Crusty Grasshopper S11, Female, Pronotum, dorsal | ![]() | |||
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, Pronotum🔎 | Other name: | Common Wrinkled-headed Grasshopper | Thank you Robert Read & Matthew Connors (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". Matthew said of S3 "Doesn't really look like C. sp. 6 though", where as of S7 he said "This one looks more like C. sp. 6". There is an undescribed species that is known about, referred to as "Caperalla sp. 6" (or C. sp. 6 for short), which is what Matthew was discussing.
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