Crusty Grasshopper
S11, Female, profile
Ellura
Crusty Grasshopper
S11, Female, Pronotum, dorsal
 
                 
Crusty Grasshopper (Caperrala sp)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.

Copyright © 2015-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 12-Mar-2015
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.