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Short-horned Grasshopper

Unidentified Acrididae

Description:

This grasshopper has been in my collection of biodiversity photos since April, 2016. Back then, when I was trying to identify the grasshopper shown here, I had some confusion between Oxya japonica (Thunberg) and Gesonula mundata (Walker), but after some considerable searching on the web, reading PDFs and comparing pictures. I decided in favour of Gesonula mundata. I wasn't entirely sure, but, at that time it seemed like a reasonable decision. When I eventually, yesterday, got around to uploading a spotting to Project Noah based on these photos, I carried out a quick check, as usual, before clicking on the "Publish Spotting" button. That was when everything was turned upside down. I looked at an article by brisbaneinsects.com, expecting to corroborate my identification, but the exact opposite happened. There is a sentence which states "We recognized this grasshopper by the banded-pattern on the antenna and its slender body." Of course, this "banded-pattern" does not exist on my specimen. So, I am back to the beginning again with Unidentified Acrididae because I cannot even be certain of the Genus now.

Habitat:

Spotted in a rice field, on foliage which is allowed to grow wild in between rice growing seasons.

Notes:

There are numerous pictures, showing the banded-pattern on the antennae at - https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/505851-Geson... - and that means that my specimen cannot be Gesonula mundata. However, there are one or two pictures which as far as I can see, do not have this important identifying feature, but I can only assume that they are erroneous.

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John B.
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John B.

Palauig, Central Luzon, Philippines

Spotted on Apr 17, 2016
Submitted on Sep 11, 2022

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