Thread subject: Diptera.info :: [Orthoptera] Mecostethus grossus?

Posted by crex on 29-10-2006 22:16
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From midwest Sweden 2006-10-13. Can anyone confirm that this grasshopper is Mecostethus grossus? It seems to have lost its hind legs. Thanx.
Edited by crex on 17-11-2006 08:19

Posted by Tony Irwin on 29-10-2006 22:37
#2
Confirmed as Stethophyma grossum. (It looks very unhoppy!)

Posted by crex on 29-10-2006 22:45
#3
I guess it soon became someone's meal ... poor thing. Thanx Tony!

Posted by eguzki on 30-10-2006 19:27
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crex wrote:
From midwest Sweden 2006-10-13. Can anyone confirm that this grasshopper is Mecostethus grossus? It seems to have lost its hind legs. Thanx.


Hi crex!

I think this is a locust, not a grasshopper. Locusts have shorter antennes than grasshoppers which have got long antennes. Or English doesn't distingusih them by reason of these characters?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 30-10-2006 20:31
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In Britain, we refer to the short-antenna Orthoptera as grasshoppers (or locusts if they are very big - >35mm) and the long-antenna Orthoptera as crickets. The Tetrigidae (with the long pronotum extension) are called groundhoppers.