Insect or Invertebrates Identification

[Klipspringer]

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.

[Richprins]

Ok Wingless Grasshopper?

[Richprins]

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

[Lisbeth]

What else can it be

[Klipspringer]

Which family of "grasshoppers"?

[Lisbeth]

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

[Klipspringer]

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

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

[Richprins]

Thericleidae?

[Klipspringer]

Thericleidae would have super short antennae

[Richprins]

Is it part of that link of yours, Klippies?