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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Pygmy Mole 'Crickets' (Tridactylidae) » Ellipes » Ellipes californicus
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Young Grasshopper - Ellipes californicus
Copyright © 2013 Craig Morgan

Young Grasshopper - Ellipes californicus
Mission Viejo, Orange County, California, USA
June 17, 2013
Trabuco Creek north of Crown Valley
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Contributed by Craig Morgan on 17 June, 2013 - 6:13pm
Last updated 27 October, 2022 - 7:53pm

Moved
Almost certain that this is californicus based on pronotal pattern and overall pale coloration compared to the other few species. I think the position of the antenna is obscuring the true number of segments

Moved from Ellipes.
… metrioptera, 27 October, 2022 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

Based on there being 10, not 11, antennae segments
It seems it must be E. minutus.
… James Bailey, 24 December, 2018 - 10:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pygmy Mole 'Crickets'.
… metrioptera, 15 June, 2018 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

Your images
Dear Craig: You are doing great work! Would you be willing to send images to me for posting on our Orange County Natural History web site (with acknowledgement to you, of course)?
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/
… Peter Bryant, 20 June, 2013 - 7:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 18 June, 2013 - 6:37am login or register to post comments

Something like this?
… Yurika Alexander, 17 June, 2013 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks good. If so, a first for California.
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… Ron Hemberger, 17 June, 2013 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

Wow! Never saw anything remotely like it.
A good day for odd hoppers in OC. I shot a pygmy grasshopper at Santiago Oaks.
… Ron Hemberger, 17 June, 2013 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

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