Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Beautiful grasshoppers
Posted by Stephen on 09-07-2006 21:58
#1
Can anyone help me identify these grasshoppers. I am thinking perhaps the nymph is the same species as the adult, but I don't know...
Location of the photos was Naxos, Greece, and the date was about July 1.
Any ID help appreciated!
Edited by Stephen on 09-07-2006 22:02
Posted by Stephen on 09-07-2006 22:00
#2
Here is the second image, the one of the immature. I think this grasshopper is really beautiful. It blends in so well with the pebbles, too.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 10-07-2006 09:08
#3
No.1: I'd suggest a Trimerotropis sp. (Acrididae, Oedipodinae)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/21214/bgimage
Posted by Stephen on 11-07-2006 13:17
#4
Thanks, Trimerotropis does look like a close match. But this genus is not found in Europe is it? Maybe it is a closely related European genus?
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 11-07-2006 16:13
#5
Sorry, i just missed the location somehow.
Well, then I'd suggest it's a Sphingonotus (caerulans?).
Cf.: http://www.nhg-nuernberg.de/scEntom/img/arten/sphingonotus.jpg
Posted by Robert Nash on 11-07-2006 16:31
#6
Second picture With that deep head Tristiridae
perhaps but it's a big perhaps. Robert How big was the first? Maybe locust size? I think we need a specialist.I'll beg for help.
Posted by Stephen on 11-07-2006 21:44
#7
Sphingonotus seems a reasonable match for picture #1, thank-you!
Robert, alas I did not record the size, and my memory is not strong on this one.
Location of both photos, by the way, was a pebbly salt flat very close to the seashore, Naxos, Greece.
Posted by Filex on 27-12-2009 23:17
#8
The second one looks like just a nymph of Sphingonotus.