Short-winged White-tips - ?Rectitropis sp.

Family Acrididae

This page contains pictures and information about the Short-winged White-tips Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.  

Body length 20mm

 

Found in Mt Cotton and Karawatha Park during mid-summer. The grasshopper is brown to dark brown in colour, reassemble dry leaves on the ground. There are the creamy white line on each side of its thorax. The inner surfaces of its hind legs are black in colour. Their antennae are relatively long comparing with other grasshopper species. There are the white rings near the tip of the antennae. 

 

    

 

The adults have very short wings, not likely functional.

 

 

Nymph body length 15mm 

 

This nymph was found in Alexandra Hill during late summer, look like the younger stage of the above grasshopper, need more observation to be sure. 

 

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