Caledia - Caledia captiva
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the Caledia Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- 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.
- We took the above pictures in Alexandra Hill Bushland in mid summer.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p177.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p350.
