Common gumleaf grasshopper
The common gumleaf grasshopper is an Australian grasshopper. Gum trees are what Australians call eucalyptus trees, and this grasshopper is named after their leaves. Like other grasshoppers, it has strong back legs for big jumps.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Scientists have used it to study how the tiny instructions inside cells get mixed when babies are made.
Those studies helped show how parts of chromosomes swap places, which is why brothers and sisters are not all exactly alike.
Like all grasshoppers, it hatches from an egg looking like a small grown-up without wings.
Most asked questions about Common gumleaf grasshopper
?Where does the common gumleaf grasshopper live?
In Australia, where gum trees grow.
?Why is the common gumleaf grasshopper famous with scientists?
Scientists used it to learn how chromosomes swap pieces when babies are made.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Goniaea australasiae
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Goniaea australasiae (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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