Phaulacridium vittatum
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Author(s): Donald Hobern
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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Author(s): Donald Hobern
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Phaulacridium vittatum (Sjöstedt, 1920) - (wingless grasshopper)
This grasshopper is found in parts of Australia and is considered a pest of pastures and various crops and trees, e.g. fruit trees, grapevine or vegetables. On pastures, where it eats grasses as well as clover and other herbs, outbreaks have been recorded periodically. The grasshopper can become a problem in pastures during periods of low rainfall and when hopper densities exceed 30 per m2 (e.g. see Bailey et al. 1994 or Roberts, 1972).
The wingless adult is around 15 mm long and greyish brown or dark brown with a pair of white or lighter stripes along the sides of the thorax. Apart from the common "wingless" (actually short-winged) form, a small part of the population has long functional wings and can fly.
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