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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throat Toothpick Grasshoppers (Leptysminae) » Leptysma » Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper (Leptysma marginicollis) » Leptysma marginicollis hebardi

Subspecies Leptysma marginicollis hebardi

Classification · Range · Habitat · Food · Internet References
Toothpick Grasshopper? - Leptysma marginicollis Grasshopper on Typha domingensis - Leptysma marginicollis Leptysma marginicollis hebardi - Leptysma marginicollis - male Leptysma marginicollis hebardi - Leptysma marginicollis - male Leptysma marginicollis hebardi - Leptysma marginicollis - male Toothpick Grasshopper, possibly Leptysma marginicollis hebardi? - Leptysma marginicollis Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper - Leptysma marginicollis - female Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper - Leptysma marginicollis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Leptysminae (Spur-throat Toothpick Grasshoppers)
Genus Leptysma
Species marginicollis (Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper)
Subspecies hebardi (Leptysma marginicollis hebardi)
Range
S. California, s. Nevada, s & w. Arizona, s. New Mexico, far w. Texas, and south in w. Mexico to Michoacan and Nayarit.
Habitat
Wet low areas where dense growths of Sedges and often Cattails occur; as marshes, arroyo bottoms, springs, streamsides, sloughs, etc.
Food
Listed as Southern Cattail (Typha domingensis)
Observed [obsv. David Ferguson] primarily associated with and feeding upon Cyperus species.
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Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 27 December, 2007 - 3:09pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, metrioptera
Last updated 21 April, 2015 - 9:34am

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