Inland Macrotona
S3, Female, Head, dorsal
Inland Macrotona
S5, Male, Forehead
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| Inland Macrotona S3, Female, Head, dorsal | | Inland Macrotona S5, Male, Forehead | | ||
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: | Inland Macrotona (Macrotona securiformis)| This Photo: | S3, Female, Head, profile | Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Females we found were ~24mm long; males ~16mm long. These have a white face compared to M. australis. Males are smaller, look very colourful and usually short-winged. Females are always fully winged, which hide their colours more. Both have lime-green bellies, as well as greenish stripes on the rear thighs, and red on the rear tibias. Notice the white tips on the antennae, as well as on the palps.
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