Garden locust

Acanthacris ruficornis
Grasshoppers (Acrididae)

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Large beige-brown grasshopper with long wings and a light stripe across the back. The antennae are short and sturdy, the eyes are striped brown black and the neck shield has 3 transverse grooves. There are solid blue-purple spines on the calves of the long hind legs. 

⇔ l. 47-82 mm 

Vegetable Eater, The family is known as migratory locusts that in huge groups can eat a large area completely. Especially found in southern Africa, fairly rare in southern Spain. 

LA: ≈ The ANACRIDIUM AEGYPTIUM (Egyptian locust) is often somewhat darker and lacks the light stripe. This species occurs throughout the Mediterranean area and also more to the north.

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