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piteronio Sydney, Australia Mar 28, 2015

Hi everyone, this beauty was chilling a few meters from our house in the bush. It was about 10 cm long. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks anyway!!
Cheers,

Pieter

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Mar 28, 2015

This appears to be a grasshopper in the family Pyrgomorphidae; likely in the genus Psednura - see https://sanatureteers.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/markoliphantcp-2014-10-11-img_4369-dutkiewicz.jpg for an example.

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Mar 28, 2015

Wow! That's a strange grasshopper! Then again, most fauna in Australia is really different from the rest of the world. Would love to visit there.

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piteronio Sydney, Australia Mar 28, 2015

Thanks a lot Flapdoodle! My girlfriend and I have spend quite some hours trying to identify it, without success. When I tried to make a picture of it, it was constantly moving to the side of the stem opposite to the camera. Great to read this is general behaviour when they try to hide!
Thanks again!

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Mar 28, 2015

You're welcome. There are some other orthopteroid insects as well as some spiders (especially jumping spiders) that also exhibit this behaviour...

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