Giant green slantface grasshopper (Acrida conica)

Acrida conica
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Acridinae
Tribe:	Acridini
Genus:	Acrida
Scientific name
Acrida conica (Fabricius, 1781)
Geography
Native countries:
Indonesia Australia Papua New Guinea

The Giant green slantface grasshopper (Acrida conica) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File No subspecies recorded for this taxon.

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceAcrida conica

Habitat

Graminicole

Activity

Diurnal

Sound

Silent

Associated organizations

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Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Thomas Mesaglio — 20 specimens collected
• Stephen Fricker — 15 specimens collected
• Matthew Connors — 13 specimens collected

• Hilary Rose Dawson — 6 specimens collected
• Michael Whitehead — 3 specimens collected
• Dylan Wishart — 3 specimens collected
• Donald Hobern — 2 specimens collected
• Richard Fuller — 2 specimens collected
• Ethan Beaver — 2 specimens collected
• Michael Kearney (Bionomia) — 2 specimens collected
• José R. Ferrer-Paris — 2 specimens collected
• Elycia Wallis — 1 specimen collected
• Peggy Newman — 1 specimen collected
• Wyn Russell — 1 specimen collected
• Dirk Spennemann — 1 specimen collected
• Nicole Kearney — 1 specimen collected
• Matt J. Nimbs — 1 specimen collected
• Cynthia Chan — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Matthew Connors — 159 specimens identified
• Thomas Mesaglio — 58 specimens identified
• Michael Kearney (Bionomia) — 10 specimens identified

• 태우 김 — 10 specimens identified
• Hilary Rose Dawson — 5 specimens identified
• Stephen Fricker — 3 specimens identified
• Dylan Wishart — 3 specimens identified
• Donald Hobern — 2 specimens identified
• Ethan Beaver — 2 specimens identified
• Holger Braun — 2 specimens identified
• Michael Whitehead — 2 specimens identified
• José R. Ferrer-Paris — 1 specimen identified
• Dirk Spennemann — 1 specimen identified
• Nicole Kearney — 1 specimen identified
• Matt J. Nimbs — 1 specimen identified
• Şevval Yağcı — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

Australian Faunal DirectoryCatalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldIRMNGNCBI taxonomyOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)UMLS CUIXeno-canto