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Family ACRIDIDAE
- Grasshoppers in this group are medium size, adults of some species are
wingless. Most grasshoppers found in Brisbane are belonged to this group.
- Bicoloured Cedarinia
  - Cedarinia sp., tribe Catantopini, subtribe Peakesiina, female and female, body length 35mm, 20mm
- Both female and male of this grasshopper have very tiny wings. The female
size is more than double of the male. The female is pale brown in colour. The
male is darker in colour and look quite different too. More
pictures and information please click here.
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- Epallia Grasshopper
 - Epallia exigua, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Apotropina, body length 40mm
- When we first saw this grasshopper, we thought it was the Slender Gumleaf Grasshopper.
Checked carefully we noticed that it had the flatten back then we
believed they are different species. More pictures and information can be
found in this page.
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- Short-winged Heath Grasshopper
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- ? Rhitzala modesta, subtribe Urnisina, male body
length 20mm
- This grasshopper was found in Karawatha Forest during late summer.
- Reference:
- 1. A
Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC
Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p184.
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- Queensland White-tips
 - Rectitropis australis, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Perbelliina, body length
20mm
- Found in Mt Cotton 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.
More information and pictures please visit this page.
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- Common Pardillana
  - Pardillana limbata, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Eumecistina, nymph, 5th instars, body length 40mm, adult
body length 60mm
- We found this nymph (1st picture) hiding on tree under stem late afternoon in Karawatha
Park during early summer. It was orange-brown with blue dots. The colours was
some what different than the other Gumleaf Grasshoppers that we saw. We
collected the nymph and kept it in a jar, fed it with fresh gum leaves.
About two weeks later, it moulted and turned into an adults (2nd picture). More
information and pictures please click on here.
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- Stem Grasshopper, Common Adreppus
 - Adreppus fallax, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Coryphistina, body length 40mm,
nymph body length 12mm
- We sometimes find them in Wishart bushland. They do not move until we come
very close. Then they hide at the other side of the tree trunk. More
information and pictures please click here.
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- Bark-Mimicking Grasshopper
  - Coryphistes ruricola, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Coryphistina, adult body length 40mm, nymph body length
25mm
- Bark-Mimicking Grasshoppers are hard to be be seen when they rest on the
tree trunk. They do not move until we come very close, then they hide at the
other side of the tree trunk. They look similar to another grasshopper
species Adreppus
fallax which also mimics the bark. This grasshopper species
has elongated antennae which is sword shaped and flattened at the bases. More
information and pictures please visit this page.
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- Handsome Macrotona Grasshopper
  - Macrotona mjoebergi, tribe Catantopini, subtribe
Macrotonina, body length
nymph 20mm, adult 30mm
- The Common Macrotona Grasshopper can be found in eucalyptus forest associated
with Spinifex grass Triodia. The above pictures are taken in Alexandra
Hill Conservation Area. near Coolnwynpin Creek. For more information and pictures
about this grasshopper please click on here.
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- Green-legs Wingless Grasshopper, False
Perloccia
 - Maclystria sp. or Genus Novum 10, sp.1, tribe Catantopini, subtribe
Maclystriina, body length female 30mm
male 15mm
- We found this couple on ground next to a large gum tree in Karawatha
Forest during mid summer. They were small and slender. Both male and female
adults had undeveloped wings. Their body was dark brown on the top, pale
brown on each side with creamy lines in between. Their three pairs of legs
were bright green in colour. More pictures and information can be found in
this page.
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Genera Goniaea
 More grasshoppers in Tribe
Catantopini - Genera Goniaea.
- 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, p179.
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