Crepitating Spurthroat: Ventral

Crepitating Spurthroat (Scurra marmoralis)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Crickets, Grasshoppers & Katydids (Orthoptera)

Family:

Short-horned Grasshopper (Caelifera: Acrididae)

Species:

Crepitating Spurthroat (Scurra marmoralis)

This Photo:

Ventral

Thank you Matthew Connors for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere
We thought this was Halgania Grasshopper (Histrioacrida roseopennis), but for one thing the antennae are MUCH shorter with this species compared to H. roseoppenis.
Crepitate (in the common name) means to make a crackling sound.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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