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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
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- 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.
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- Photo: Keith Power, Toowoomba
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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.
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