Yellow-winged Locust - Gastrimargus musicus
Family Acrididae
This page contains pictures and information about the Yellow-winged Locusts that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 30mm
- Yellow-winged Locusts are easily found in Brisbane grassland. They prefer grasses of medium height. When in flight, they show their back-banded yellow hind wings with loud clicking noise. There are the red marking on their hind legs.
- Photo: Keith Power, Toowoomba
- This species has green and brown forms. The second pictures was taken in Karawatha Forest during early winter. A lot of them were found there at that time.
- 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, p358.
