Green Methiola - Methiola sp.
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the Green Methiola Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- This Green Methiola looked very similar to the Beautiful Methiola except in different body colour scheme. Their abdomen is about the same colours, with black strip on pale brown. The Green Methiola has the green head and green thorax. All legs are green colour as well. The keens are the same black colour. Their banded antenna look the same. Both species can be found in the same area at the same time.
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- Jan 2004 Buhot Creek, Jan 2011
- Both adult males and females are flightless, they have reduced-wings.
- Ford Road Conservation Area, Feb and Mar 2011
- The bottom side of the abdomen is bright yellow in colours.
- We found this grasshopper in the wet part of the Eucalypt forests.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p179.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p77.
