False Perloccia - Genus Novum 10, sp.1

Family Acrididae

This page contains pictures and information about the False Perloccia Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.  

Male, body length 20mm

 

This grasshopper has the weird common name False Perloccia. Both adult males and females are short-winged. The antenna are relatively short. 

 

 

Female, body length 30mm  

 

 

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Reference:

1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p190.

2. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p299.

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