Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Could this one be a kind of shield bug ?, 0 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Very interesting!
I've also been thinking about relationship with the cricket world, but then the back legs are not long enough for that and with the cricket species the antennae look like made out of many tiny sections like mini-pearls on a string while mine has 4 large sections.

Very weird shapes indeed specially among the Mole crickets!
Not very aesthetic!
The grasshoppers and cricket family looks like being one of these very difficult ones for ID!

I found a couple more pictures of the same;

The first one is of the oldest in another angle but of poor quality. Anyhow it gives another view on its head: