Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Re: Insect or Invertebrates Identification

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Locusts are per definitionem grasshoppers that can swarm, so never wingless.

Hint: in this family males and females are wingless and the Western Cape is a hotspot with many endemics.


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Ok Wingless Grasshopper? -O-


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Actually no, wingless grasshopper on google comes back as a shoe, or a link to Africa Wild! ^Q^


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What else can it be -O-


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Which family of "grasshoppers"?


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..0.. A cricket?
Rhaphidophoridae (camel crickets, cave crickets, cave wetas)

Occurs on all continents with localised distributions. In Africa, it is only known from two species of Spelaeiacris in the Western Cape: Spelaeiacris monslamiensis (from Hex River Mountains) and Spelaeiacris tabulae (from Table Mountain


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Things with short antennae (shorter than body length) are Caelifera

http://www.biodiversityexplorer.info/or ... /index.htm


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Thericleidae? -O-


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:no: Thericleidae would have super short antennae


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Is it part of that link of yours, Klippies? :-?


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