Spotted Bandwing
S9, 5th Instar, dorsal
Spotted Bandwing
S4, Adult, profile
| Spotted Bandwing S9, 5th Instar, dorsal | | Spotted Bandwing S4, Adult, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Spotted Bandwing (Qualetta maculata) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S11, Female Adult, dorsal🔎 | ||||
Thank you Matthew Connors for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere They are known for their thick pronotum (shield on the back). It does vary though. The head is also quite distinctive being quite short but high, with the eyes protruding above the "forehead". The abdomen is apricot in colour, and the pronotum has varying shades of white to grey. Thanks to Matthew Connors for picking our miss-id of the nymph. We thought it was Cratilopus; you can see the pronotum shape is wrong for that genus, as well as Cratilopus being flightless. | |||||
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