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Giant Green Slantface

Acrida conica

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) badminton6shawash5sord, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 779, February 960, March 800, April 400, May 114, June 32, July 12, August 8, September 7, October 37, November 100, December 245.
Australia3,494
Victoria1,203
New South Wales1,067
Queensland450
Western Australia257
South Australia214
Australian Capital Territory197
Northern Territory100
Other Territories4
Tasmania2

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyShort-horned Grasshoppers · Acrididae
GenusSlantface Grasshoppers · Acrida

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Giant Green Slantface with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.