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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Slant-faced Grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae) » Amblytropidia Group » Amblytropidia » Brown Winter Grasshopper (Amblytropidia mysteca)

Species Amblytropidia mysteca - Brown Winter Grasshopper

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

What is this grasshopper? - Amblytropidia mysteca - female

Grasshopper species - I.D. ? - Amblytropidia mysteca - male

Amblytropidia mysteca, male - Amblytropidia mysteca - male

Grasshopper - 6-01-09 - Amblytropidia mysteca

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)

Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)

Subfamily Gomphocerinae (Slant-faced Grasshoppers)

No Taxon (Amblytropidia Group)

Genus Amblytropidia

Species mysteca (Brown Winter Grasshopper)

Size

males: 19-24 mm, females 24-30 mm, some references report to 36 mm length

Identification

Robust, yellowish-brown, often with broad golden stripe running lengthwise above. Hind tibiae brownish-yellow. Eye is large. Face is slanted, top of head is rounded. Antennae are short. When disturbed, flies briefly, then dives and burrows into vegetation.

Range

Southern United States: Virginia to Arizona, and southward through Central America.

Habitat

Typically short to high grasses in open woodlands, especially pine woodlands.

Season

All year in southern areas

Life Cycle

Overwinters as adult. In northern parts of range, passes the summer in the egg stage, but in southern areas adults may be present all year.

See Also

Striped Slant-faced Grasshopper Amphitornus coloradus (see Grasshoppers of New Mexico)

Print References

Capinera, Field Guide to Grasshoppers, pp. 58-59, plate 1 (1)

Capinera, Grasshoppers of Florida, pp. 46-47, plate 21 (2)

Helfer, How to Know the Grasshoppers ... pp. 176-177, fig. 286 (3)

Internet References

Grasshoppers of New Mexico

Grasshoppers of Florida

OSF

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide To Grasshoppers, Katydids, And Crickets Of The United States By John L. Capinera, Ralph D. Scott, Thomas J. Walker

2.	Grasshoppers of Florida (Invertebrates of Florida) By John L. Capinera, Clay W. Scherer, Jason M. Squiter, Jason M. Squitier

3.	How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies By Jacques R. Helfer

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 24 January, 2006 - 4:49pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 13 March, 2007 - 8:36pm

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