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Species Metaleptea brevicornis - Clipwing Grasshopper
Classification Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Acridinae (Silent Slantfaced Grasshoppers)
Tribe Hyalopterygini
Genus Metaleptea
Species brevicornis (Clipwing Grasshopper)
Other Common Names Short-horned Grasshopper, Short-horned Locust, Clipped-wing Grasshopper Synonyms and other taxonomic changes Truxalis brevicornis, Tryxalis brevicornis. (Former genus name is from troxalis, a Latin/Greek word for grasshopper, related to Greek trox, gnaw, see A Dictionary of Botanical Etymology). Size Males: 25-38 mm, females: 36-53 mm (forehead to tip of folded wings) Identification Slant-faced, angled forewing tips, sword-like antennae distinctive:
Color variable brown and green. Hindwing has no pigment. Flies, seldom leaps. Range Eastern North America, mostly east of Mississippi. In south, range extends west to Texas, from there, south into neotropics, temperate South America. Habitat Wetlands with sedges, grasses, sometimes occurs in salt marshes. Season Mid-summer to fall. July-October (eastern North America). August-September (Michigan). Life Cycle Both males and females come to lights at night. This has been noted in late July and early August in the lower Piedmont of North Carolina. Presumably this is a period of dispersal. Print References Helfer, p. 152, fig. 249 (1)
Capinera, pp. 57-58, plates 33-34 (2)
Lutz, 3rd ed., plate 13, "Truxalis brevicornis" (3)
Brimley, p. 23, "Tryxalis brevicornis": "Raleigh and westward in marshes" (6)
Capinera et al., pp. 76-77 plate 7 (7)Works Cited | 2. | Grasshoppers of Florida (Invertebrates of Florida)
By John L. Capinera, Clay W. Scherer, Jason M. Squiter, Jason M. Squitier |  |
Contributed by Cotinis on 29 September, 2004 - 7:29am Additional contributions by Mike BooneLast updated 4 March, 2007 - 11:35am |
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