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Family ACRIDIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Spur-throated Grasshoppers
in Subtribe Peakesiina that we found in the
Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Bicoloured Cedarinia
 
 - Cedarinia sp. 3, female and male, body length 30mm, 20mm
- Both female and male of this grasshopper have very tiny wings. The female
size is about double of the male. The female is pale brown in colour. The
male is darker in colour and look quite different. This grasshopper is common
in Brisbane bushes. More
pictures and information please click here.
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- Eastern Inland Cedarinia
- Cedarinia sp.4, female body length 30mm
Nymph, 20mm
- Both adult males and females have reduced-wings and flightless. Males are
about the half size of female, but we did not find one yet. Please check
this page for more information.
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- Peakesia Grasshopper
 - Peakesia sp., body length 30mm
- We found this grasshopper once in Ford Road Conservation Area on Feb 2009.
For this species both male and female adults are fully-winged. Please check
this page for more information.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p391.
- 2. Grasshopper
Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz,
UNSW Press, 1996, p179.
- 3. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF
Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003.
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