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Very large grasshopper. Maybe 4 inches long. People I was with called it a Longosta. Which I believe means lobster.
Semi-arid tropical forest
Saw this guy flying by when I was mountain biking with a bike club in the high country of northeast El Salvador. It watched it, it landed on a tree a ways away, and I ran over keeping my eye on the spot. Found it sitting on a branch, and I caught it so as to have a little photoshoot.
This looks like a grasshopper I found in Costa Rica: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/539....
I had IDed it as Tropidacris cristata, but I haven't found a very good reference anywhere online for it. There's also a species, Tropidacris dux, that seems to look similar.
Spotted on Nov 12, 2008
Submitted on Jun 23, 2011
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