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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Dactylotini » Aztecacris » Atascosa Gem Grasshopper (Aztecacris gloriosa)

Species Aztecacris gloriosa - Atascosa Gem Grasshopper

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Melanoplinae (Spur-throated Grasshoppers)
Tribe Dactylotini
Genus Aztecacris
Species gloriosa (Atascosa Gem Grasshopper)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Aztecacris gloriosa (Hebard)
Orig. Comb: Perixerus gloriosus Hebard, 1935
sometimes Aztecacris gloriosus
Explanation of Names
Type locality near Atascosa Peak in AZ.
Size
about 16-25 mm
Identification
Rather similar in appearance to Hesperotettix and Poecilotettix, but somewhat stockier in build; male with upper margin of subgenital plate not elevated near base, but nearly flat; with short oval tegmina (Hesperotettix & Poecilotettix in south Arizona don't have short wings). Green with red on legs and as a stripe down middle of back.
Range
Known only from south central Arizona - Map (GBIF), but probably also in adjacent northern Sonora.
Habitat
Rocky slopes in open Oak - Woodland savannah.
Season
Sept-Nov (GBIF)
Food
Favors shrubs in the Asteraceae.
Remarks
Type Locality: Arizona, Santa Cruz Co., Pajaritos Mountains, S slopes of Atascosa Peak
Some(1) believed this species to be extinct, since it had not been officially reported since the 1940's, but it was photographed again in 2011 (BG data).
Print References
Behrstock & Sullivan. 2012. Jour. Orth. Res. 21(2): 251–254.
Behrstock & Van Devender. 2015. Dugesiana 22(2): 97-98.
Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part I. New genera, species, and geographic races. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 61: 111–153.
Helfer. 1962. How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies. 203. (1)
Roberts, H.R. 1947. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 99: 224.
Internet References
Orthoptera Species File - OSF
Works Cited
1.How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies
Jacques R. Helfer. 1962. Wm. C. Brown Company.
Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 1 January, 2010 - 9:31pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 16 October, 2022 - 10:00am

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