Black-kneed Gumleaf Grasshopper - Goniaea carinata

Family Acrididae

This page contains pictures and information about the Black-kneed Gumleaf Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.  

Body length 40mm

 

 

 

Pictures taken in Mt Cotton during mid summer. When it flied, we saw its bright yellow-orange hind wings. This grasshopper look likes the Gum Leaf Grasshopper but smaller in size and has longer antenna with white tips.

 

 

Nymph, 4th instars, body length 20mm

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Reference:

1. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p244.

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Last updated: April 25, 2007.