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Family ACRIDIDAE
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- Mimetic Gumleaf Grasshopper
  - Goniaea opomaloides, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Goniaeina, adult body length 40mm,
nymph body length 10mm
- This is another species of grasshopper camouflages in dry gum leaf colour.
This species is smaller in size than the species compare with others in genus Goniaea. They feed
on gum leaves on the forest ground. When we were bushwalking in the Eucalyptus
forest in White Hill, Brisbane, we usually disturbed one or two of them
for every step we walked. They jumped and flied to about a meter away and disappeared
in the dry gum leaves background. More pictures and information
please click here.
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- Black-kneed Gumleaf Grasshopper
  - Goniaea carinata, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Goniaeina, 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 above but smaller in size and has longer antenna with white tips.
Please also check this page for more information.
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- Slender Gumleaf Grasshopper
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- Goniaea vocans, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Goniaeina, adult body length
60mm, nymph body length 20mm
- The Slender Gumleaf Grasshopper is brown in colour, camouflages as a dry
gum leaf. We can sometimes find them on the ground with the dry Gum tree
leaves when bushwalking in Eucalyptus forest. This species is easily
confused with the above species Gumleaf
Grasshopper Goniaea australasiae. Slender Gumleaf
Grasshopper has the carina, or the top edge of thorax, lower and less
pronounced, and has a distinct cut. More information and pictures please
click here.
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- Gumleaf Grasshopper
  - Goniaea australasiae, tribe Catantopini, subtribe Goniaeina, adult body length 50mm, nymph body length
15mm
- The Gum Leaf Grasshopper is brown in colour, camouflages as a dry gum
leaf. It has the prominent arched crest on thorax. The grasshoppers' hindwings
are orange in colour, can be seen when it is flying. They are also known as Dead Leaf Grasshopper.
More pictures and information please click here.
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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, p188.
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