weird looking grasshopper sri lanka

Gestart door DJHiker, augustus 22, 2014, 14:38:07 PM

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DJHiker

I would like to know which species this is
It concerns this sighting
http://observado.org/waarneming/view/87379416
identification uncertain Unidentified grasshopper or locust - Orthoptera indet. observed at 2013-01-25 Sri Lanka - Anuradhapura
Photos:


Not the same specimen in these two photo's, but they look like the same species.
thanks in advance David Kohl
David Kohl

DJHiker

After posting on insecte.org, I learned that it is an (adult) Orthacris species.
Six Orthacris species have been reported from Sri Lanka http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/editTaxon/Distribution/SearchForFauna.aspx?GeoID=40SRL---: O. ceylonica, O. curvicerca, O. elongata, O. filiformis, O. gracilis and O. major
Identification up to species level on the basis of only this image will be very difficult.

David
David Kohl