Spotting

Estoy de acuerdo con usted. Me gustó el artículo. Me gustó el tema que trata sobre las dos linajes de ortópteros con convergencias. Muchas gracias!

Hola Andre,

Aparentemente Rhytidochrotinae es una sub familia bastante rara. Se han descrito 20 géneros y 47 especies, algunas de las cuales únicamente se conocen por el macho o la hembra. Encontré este artículo que está interesante, donde se describe a demás la sub familia: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.ph...

Hola Gustavo!
Yo estaba tratando de identificar a un saltamontes y encontré una referencia que pueda ayudar en este caso: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhytidochro.... La imagen parece que tiene un saltamontes Hylopedetes (check in http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common...)

Se veia al principio que las piernas estaban mas acostados. Perdon!

Family : Eumastacidae. From Wikipedia : "Eumastacidae are a family of grasshoppers sometimes known as monkey- or matchstick grasshoppers. They usually have thin legs that are held folded at right angles to the body, sometimes close to the horizontal plane. Many species are wingless and the head is at an angle with the top of the head often jutting above the line of the thorax and abdomen. They have three segmented tarsi and have a short antenna with a knobby organ at the tip. They do not have a prosternal spine or tympanum. Most species are tropical and the diversity is greater in the Old World. They are considered primitive within the Orthoptera and feed on algae, ferns and gymnosperms, the more ancient plant groups.[1]
The families Chorotypidae and Morabidae were formerly included in this group as subfamilies but are now considered as families within the Eumastacoidea".

These grasshoppers are known in Costa Rica as Monkeyhoppers. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/128...