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Atractomorpha psittacina psittacina
Green grasshopper, long-headed, slant-faced, about 3cm in length. Grass green in color, with pink color on their hind wings and abdomen, covered by front wings. Males are smaller than female in size. Nymphs look similar to the adults except wingless. Atractomorpha psittacina psittacina (Haan, 1842), considered as sweet potato pests, are slant-faced grasshoppers, voracious leaf eaters that makes big irregular holes before they consume the entire leaf. It is from Pyrgomorphidae, a family of grasshoppers in the order Orthoptera commonly known as the gaudy grasshoppers. Classification: superfamily Pyrgomorphoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882; family Pyrgomorphidae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882; subfamily Pyrgomorphinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882; tribe Atractomorphini Bolívar, 1905; genus Atractomorpha Saussure, 1862
Spotted in the backyard, feeding on a sweet potato leaf.
Reference: http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/sweetp... http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_... http://www.eclecticstock.com/photo.asp?P...
Spotted on Nov 23, 2012
Submitted on Nov 23, 2012
25 Comments (1–25)
There is obviously not much info about Acrida sp. on the Philippines, I agree. There are reports from Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Australia. So in MHO there is no reason not finding these also on the Philippines. With your common name you are anyway on the safe side and nymphs are very tricky to impossible to ID.
Thanks for your comment bayucca, I revisited this spotting. There seems to be no Acrida sp. recorded in the Philippines and looks like Philippines is not included in its distribution - http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common.... I checked other Acrididae genera existing in the Philippines, but could not get matching image for my spotting. Finally, I stumbled upon a link of sweetpotato pests in the Philippines and saw Atractomorpha psitaccina psittacina as a possible match - http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/sweetp..., http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common.... What do you think?
Looks like being a Toothpick Grasshopper Nymph. Same one as this??
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/177...
Thanks for guiding us Lisa. No worries, we understand the process now.. Regards :)
Thank you Agnes. I know it is aggravating, but it really does make it harder on the staff and rangers trying to keep up with badly manged missions...especially when the mission creator tries to global.
Got that Lisa. Sorry Adi, I can't contribute to your mission for now.
I have removed this from the Exploring Grasshopper mission as it falls outside the range of the mission.
Thank you Lisa...
That is acceptable :-)
I changed name itself to "Exploring grasshoppers"!
Yeah..what to do! How much i can cover with 300km area!!! Title automatically changed???
That is because you cannot start a global mission as I explained in my earlier post.
Adi, I joined Grasshoppers of the World. But the title became Grasshoppers of Southern India..
Thank u for nice suggestion Lisa...
Agnes: I created the mission...
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1577...
Missions must start out as local and you need to show you can manage the mission before it can become global. Otherwise we end up with too many missions that are set up and never monitored.
Go Adi! Thanks!
Ok then! I will create mission named "Grasshoppers of the world"...It is allowed to add spottings from all places for a local mission i think...I ll create..If not allowed, rangers will remove it..
I've seen missions created under local, but the intended audience is global. Guess our PN rangers would allow that?? If not, help pls rangers!!
Yeah..i will create..But we cannot create global mission na! What to do?
Will you be creating the mission Adi? :P
Yeah... They pose like a professional model...A mission is needed indeed!
I think we don't even have a PN mission on grasshoppers... I notice that they are not shy. They will hop near you and pose as if they want to be photographed. :)
Even we dont care much about grasshoppers much! They keep moving with us even if u dont capture them..poor babies!
First time for me Adi to see it with its head in this position. It did not have care in the world while it was munching at the sweet potato leaf. :)
Never seen a grasshopper like this!