False Perloccia - Maclystria sp. or Genus Novum 10, sp.1
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the False Perloccia Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length female 30mm male 15mm
- This grasshopper has the weird common name False Perloccia. We prefer to call them Green-legs Wingless Grasshopper.
- 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.
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- We sometimes see these grasshoppers, but thought they were the nymph because of their undeveloped wings.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p190.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p299.
