CLOSED: Giagant grasshoppers eating my plants. Maybe a locust.

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Ablemus Guatemala, Guatemala Mar 18, 2014

Please help me identify this insect

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Mar 18, 2014

Not a grasshopper (family Acrididae), but a Katydid (family Tettogoniidae). Grasshoppers and locusts don't have the extremely long antennae. It is a female the 'dagger' at the rear end is its ovipositor! It is quite like this one: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/03/18/unknown-katydid-from-guatemala/
which is named as Nannonotus alatus

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Ablemus Guatemala, Guatemala Apr 17, 2014

Thank you.

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