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Pygmy grasshopper

Pygmy grasshopper
Ruby, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
October 3, 2010
Size: c 10mm
On wet sand at shore of lake - very shy and hard to get close-up. Tettigidea?

I keep coming back to this one, but
can't come up with an answer. Either T. ornata is found a lot further south than thought, or some Mexican species is crossing the border there; or, I'm just not seeing it correctly.

I think this is perhaps another case of something from the Sierra Madre in Sonora that is hiding out in Arizona too - Just never noticed before. Some more documentation of this one would be useful. Usually where there is one, there are lots more. Most species overwinter as adults, so if you get over there again during a stretch of warm days, might be worth a look (sometimes they hide pretty thoroughly through much of the winter though, and don't really appear again until late winter or spring).

Based on proportions, I think this one is probably adult female (adult for sure, because the wings are long and fully developed).

Moved
Moved from Tetrix.

Do you have any other shots of this one?
I can't quite make out enough detail to tell what it is. It is likely a species of Tetrix, but I'm not even certain of that yet (I may have moved it from genus prematurely, but at first look I thought it was Paratettix. Definitely a well camouflaged and attractive one.

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Moved from ID Request.

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