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Family EUMASTACIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Green-legged Matchstick Grasshoppers
that we found in the
Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Male, body length 35mm
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- This Grasshopper is known as Matchstick Grasshopper. The grasshopper is not easily
seen because of their well camouflage. Both male and female are wingless, with
very elongated body. Their head is long and pointed. They have large compound
eyes, this suggests that they are active at night.
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- We recognized the ID of this Matchstick by the shape of the cercus at the
end of male body and its antenna.
Male
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- Pictures were taken on May 2009, Buhot Creek on Daisy Hills
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- Pictures were taken in Anstead Forest on Mar 2009.
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- We found this Matchstick on Acacia a few times, included the
Queensland Sliver Wattle (Acacia podalyriifolia) and the Brisbane
Wattle (Acacia fimbriata). They are also found on other plants in
Eucalypt Forest.
Female
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- We took the above pictures at Northbrook Creek near Lake Wivenhoe.
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- This Matchstick Grasshopper has the slender and smooth body. It has the
relatively long and straight antenna, with 13-15 segments (12 preorganal and
0.5-2.5 postorganal articles).
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- Pictures were taken in Ford Road Conservation Area on Apr 2008. The
Matchstick was feeding leaves on a Brisbane Wattle.
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- Karawatha Forest Jan 2010. The Matchstick was struggling on a spider
web.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper
Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz,
UNSW Press, 1996, plate224.
- 2. A generic and suprageneric classificatin of the Morabinae (Orthoptera : Eumastacidae), with description of the type species and a bibliography of the subfamily -
K.H.L. Key, 1976, Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 24 (37) 1 - 185.
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