Three-eyed Leaf-rolling Cricket - Xiphogryllacris orthoxipha

Family GRYLLACRIDIDAE  

This page contains pictures and information about Three-eyed Leaf-rolling Crickets that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Nymph, body length 20mm 

 

This Leaf Rolling Cricket has the very large median ocellus which is as large as its compound eyes. So we call it Three-eyed Leaf Rolling Cricket. Unlike the other species we listed, there is no any dark markings on its face.

 

 

Oct 2008 in Daisy Hill we found this nymph hiding between leaves. The retreat was build with two leaves attached by silky materials. From the size of its developing wings, without sword-like ovipositor, we believed it is a male last instars. 

 

 

It does not have the dark face patterns, instead, its face pattern is three white dots. 

 

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Reference:

1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 380.

2. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p62.  

3. Family GRYLLACRIDIDAE - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2008.  

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