Bark-mimicking Grasshopper - Coryphistes ruricola
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the Bark-Mimicking Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 50mm
- They are hard to be be seen when they rest on the tree trunk. They do not move until we come very close, then they hide at the other side of the tree trunk. They look similar to another grasshopper species Adreppus fallax which also mimics the bark. This grasshopper species has elongated antennae which is sword shaped and flattened at the bases.
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- Both female and male of this species are fully winged. The colour and patterns of each individual may vary a bit.
- When they are resting on tree trunk, they are hardly be noticed even come very close.
Nymph
- 3rd instars 4th instars
- 5th instars
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p189. plate322.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p264.
