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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Lubber Grasshoppers (Romaleidae) » Toad Lubbers (Phrynotettix) » Robust Toad Lubber (Phrynotettix robustus)
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mating Robust Toad Lubbers - Phrynotettix robustus - male - female
Copyright © 2007 Matthew Priebe

mating Robust Toad Lubbers - Phrynotettix robustus - Male Female
Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA
April 4, 2007
Size: female 2 inches
This very strange pair of grasshoppers was in the Chihuahuan Desert of the Big Bend, near a desert oasis. The female resembled a fat pebble and was so bloated she could barely hop (the weight of the male didn't help). I have seen many desert grasshoppers but never this fat.

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Contributed by Matthew Priebe on 16 April, 2007 - 12:49pm
Last updated 9 May, 2007 - 11:30am

Moved
Moved from Lubber Grasshoppers.
… Boris Büche, 8 May, 2007 - 11:32am login or register to post comments

Very Cool!
These are toad lubbers. I have not committed the genus name to memory because I have never personally encountered any specimens. I do believe we have at least one existing image in the guide pages. Nice find, terrific images!
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 April, 2007 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

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