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 Beautiful grasshoppers
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| Stephen |
Posted on 09-07-2006 20:58
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Can anyone help me identify these grasshoppers. I am thinking perhaps the nymph is the same species as the adult, but I don't know... Location of the photos was Naxos, Greece, and the date was about July 1. Any ID help appreciated! Stephen attached the following image:  [89.04Kb] Edited by Stephen on 09-07-2006 21:02 --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 09-07-2006 21:00
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Here is the second image, the one of the immature. I think this grasshopper is really beautiful. It blends in so well with the pebbles, too.
Stephen attached the following image:  [74.59Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 10-07-2006 08:08
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 Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3331 Joined: 17.10.05 |
No.1: I'd suggest a Trimerotropis sp. (Acrididae, Oedipodinae) http://bugguide.net/node/view/21214/bgimage |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 11-07-2006 12:17
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Thanks, Trimerotropis does look like a close match. But this genus is not found in Europe is it? Maybe it is a closely related European genus?
--Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 11-07-2006 15:13
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Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3331 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Sorry, i just missed the location somehow. Well, then I'd suggest it's a Sphingonotus (caerulans?). Cf.: http://www.nhg-nuernberg.de/scEntom/img/arten/sphingonotus.jpg |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 11-07-2006 15:31
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
Second picture With that deep head Tristiridae perhaps but it's a big perhaps. Robert How big was the first? Maybe locust size? I think we need a specialist.I'll beg for help. |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 11-07-2006 20:44
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Sphingonotus seems a reasonable match for picture #1, thank-you! Robert, alas I did not record the size, and my memory is not strong on this one. Location of both photos, by the way, was a pebbly salt flat very close to the seashore, Naxos, Greece. --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| Filex |
Posted on 27-12-2009 22:17
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Member Location: Posts: 70 Joined: 22.08.07 |
The second one looks like just a nymph of Sphingonotus. |
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