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Family ACRIDIDAE
- This subfamily is a large group. Several locusts species are included.
Grasshoppers in this subfamily are usually medium in size. Some of them
produce buzzing sound when flight.
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- Froggatt's Buzzer
 - Froggattina australis, tribe Acridini, body length 25mm
- When we walk on the bushland with short grass, it was common that every
step we walked, we heard a loud buzzing sound and see some insects jumped and
flied
away just above the ground. It was difficult to look at what was those
creatures. Most
likely they were the Froggatt's Buzzer grasshoppers. Please also visit
this page for more details.
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- Golden Bandwing
 - Cryptobothrus chrysophorus, tribe Acridini, male body length 20mm,
nymph 15mm
- The grasshopper is brown to dark
brown in colour, reassemble dry leaves on the ground. The abdomen and hind
legs are bright orange in colour. More information and images can be found
on this page.
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- Longheaded Grasshopper, Giant Green Slantface
  - Acrida conica, tribe Acridini, body length nymph 40,
adult 70mm
- This grasshopper is green in colour with brown strips on it head. Its head
is long and with short and flat antennae. Its pair of hind legs are
long and spindly. When disturbed, it opens its wings to make noise and shows
the pink-red abdomen. Click here for more
information.
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- Caledia
  - Caledia captiva, tribe Acridini, body length 25mm
- This
grasshopper is variable in colour and pattern, can be in green, brown to
greyish-brown. They make sound when in flight. They are easy encountered
and sometimes confused with the the locusts species. The major different are
their wings are not patterned and their hind legs tibia are not red as locust.
More information can be found in this page.
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- Yellow-winged Locust
 - Gastrimargus musicus, tribe Oedipodini, body length 30mm
- Yellow-winged Locusts are easily found in Brisbane grassland. They prefer
grasses of medium height. When in flight, they show their back-banded yellow hind wings
with loud clicking noise. There are the red marking on their hind legs.
This species has green and brown forms. More pictures and information please
click on here.
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- Unknown Band-winged Grasshopper
 - ? sp., body length 20mm
 - Found one in Karawatha Forest on Sept 2007.
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- 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, p176.
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