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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Pygmy Grasshoppers (Tetrigidae) » Tetrix » Tetrix subulata
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Pygmy Grasshopper - Tetrix subulata
Copyright © 2007 Kevin Hall

Pygmy Grasshopper - Tetrix subulata
Lacey (near Olympia), Thurston County, Washington, USA
August 24, 2007
This little fellow only let me get one shot in before hopping/flying? away. And I didn't see where he hopped/flew to. :( Seemed awfully small for a grasshopper, and I don't see the really large hind legs. Seemed much to big for a leaf/tree hopper type. I'm going to stop now as I'm just going to come across more and more bugnorant. I was able to get everything else I found today down to order or even family on my own, but this one...I'll say it's in class Insecta (hope I'm not wrong on even that!). :)
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Contributed by Kevin Hall on 24 August, 2007 - 8:24pm
Last updated 14 June, 2008 - 10:42pm

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… Kevin Hall, 26 August, 2007 - 9:40pm login or register to post comments

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… Kevin Hall, 25 August, 2007 - 6:09pm login or register to post comments

I would say this is one of th
I would say this is one of the Pygmy Grasshoppers, family Tetrigidae. They are also called groundhoppers because the stay pretty close to the ground, in leaf litter and whatnot. It I'm seeing it correctly in your photo, the pronotum (top of the thorax) extends all the way down past the end of the abdomen. That would make this a pygmy grasshopper. One species occurs in Washington state, the Mexican Pygmy Grasshopper (Paratettix mexicanus).
… Chad Lensbower, 25 August, 2007 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

 
pygmy grasshoppers
Thanks very much for that clue, Chad. Given that start, I think I found it. In fact, there's an almost identical image in the guide already under Tetrix subulata.
… Kevin Hall, 25 August, 2007 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

How small is small? It seems
How small is small? It seems to be an adult, that is fully winged, shorthorned grasshopper, maybe Arphia. I think I can see large folded hindlegs.
… margarethe brummermann, 24 August, 2007 - 8:56pm login or register to post comments

 
apparently it's a pygmy
I know what you mean about the folded hindlegs, but they just didn't "seem right" for a regular grasshopper to me. Turns out we were both right: it did have folded hindlegs tucked in there, and it wasn't a regular grasshopper. :) Thanks for your help, Margarethe!
… Kevin Hall, 25 August, 2007 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

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