![]() | Australian Aiolopus Grasshopper Male, dorsal | Australian Aiolopus Grasshopper Male, Rear Legs | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera) | ||||
Family: | Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Australian Aiolopus Grasshopper (Aiolopus thalassinus ssp dubius) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Male, profile🔎 | ||||
Thank you Robert Read for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Record in SA on Atlas: ~22mm long. Blue back leg "calves", distinctive white stripe on the forewings. Thanks to Robert for also letting us know it was a male. | |||||
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