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short-horned Grasshopper

family Acridae

Description:

a slim, boldly striped short-horned grasshopper in green & cream, about 4 cms in length. The antennae should be straight and the feet are not really grey; this fellow got caught up in a spiders web but managed to escape taking a portion of the web with her. It is probably a female as the end of the abdomen appears straight and not turned up as is the case with the males

Habitat:

Attracted to the lights in the village shop one evening, in a small rural village in eastern Botswana. Vegetation type bushveld, climate hot, dry with summer rainfall (450mm p.a.)

Notes:

I've been searching the web but I've failed to find a grasshopper with this colour pattern, which is quite distinctive.

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1 Comment

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Fantástico bello

C.Sydes
Spotted by
C.Sydes

Lephalale Local Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa

Spotted on Feb 12, 2012
Submitted on Apr 28, 2012

Spotted for Mission

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