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Giant Grasshopper
Valanga irregularis
Valanga irregularis (common name "giant grasshopper", "giant valanga" or "hedge grasshopper") belongs to the Family of Acrididae. The distribution is restricted in the Australian tropics and subtropics. The species belongs to the largest grasshopper of the continent. Usually the animal lives a solitary mode of life.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 201636.