Alice Springs Desert Park
ASDP OrthopteraKatydid (Taeniomenae) Variable Stropis Grasshopper
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A five legged Variable Stropis (Stropis nigrovitellina) in the subfamily Catantopinae (Spur-throated Grasshoppers), that was feeding on a Solanum sp (host plant) in the Alice Springs Desert Park.
This was the Solanum sp (host plant) that the Variable Stropis (Stropis nigrovitellina) was feeding on.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Orthoptera
- Suborder: Caelifera
- Superfamily: Acridoidea
- Family: Acrididae
- Subfamily: Catantopini
- Tribe: Catantopini
- Subtribe: Stroina
- Genus: Stropis
- Species: Stropis nigrovitellina
Footnote & References
- Stropis nigrovitellina Sjöstedt, 1920, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/9c3c9ec6-1fd8-4f2b-9c5f-8810f75ce8c9
- Variable Stropis (Stropis nigrovitellina), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/741706-Stropis-nigrovitellina
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