Mimetic Gumleaf Grasshopper - Goniaea opomaloides
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the Mimetic Gumleaf Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Female, body length 40mm
- This is another species of grasshopper camouflages in dry gum leaf colour. This species is smaller in size than Gum Leaf Grasshopper.
- They feed on gum leaves on the forest ground. When we were bushwalking in the Eucalyptus forest in White Hill, Brisbane, we usually disturbed one or two of them for every step we walked. They jumped and flied to about a meter away and disappeared in the the dry gum leaves background.
- Male, body length 25mm
- Nymph, 3rd instars, body length 10mm
- Nymph picture taken in Alexandra Hill during late summer. This species over-winters in nymphal stage.
- Nymph, 4th or 5th instars
