Queensland White-tips - Rectitropis australis
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the Queensland White-tips Grasshoppers that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- Found in Mt Cotton and Karawatha Park 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.
- The grasshopper has very short wings, not likely functional, or it could be an nymph.
- Nymph body length 15mm
- This nymph was found in Alexandra Hill during late summer, look like the younger stage of the above grasshopper, need more observation to be sure.
- Reference:
- 1. Grasshopper Country - the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, D Rentz, UNSW Press, 1996, p184.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Grasshoppers and Locusts - DCF Rentz, RC Lewis, YN Su and MS Upton, 2003, p217.
