Common Gesonula - Gesonula mundata
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the Common Gesonula Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 30mm
- This is a northern Australian species and not suppose to found them here in Brisbane. We found one once in Karawatha Forest on July 2007. It was on Hakea Track at the edge of a small pond.
- It was Sun-bathing on leaf on water surface during a warm winter day.
- We recognized this grasshopper by the banded-pattern on the antenna and its slender body.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p179, plate258.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p69.
