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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) » Melanoplini » Floritettix » Wingless Florida Grasshopper (Floritettix aptera)

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Grasshopper - Floritettix aptera -

Croom Tract (Withlacoochee), Florida, USA
January 29, 2015

If this is Chortophaga I'm going to yell at something.

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Contributed by James Bailey on 3 May, 2015 - 3:11pm
Last updated 6 May, 2015 - 6:50pm

I feel confident calling this a male Aptenopedes aptera

Looking through Capinera, Grasshoppers of Florida, we can rule out all other species based on the coloration, general appearance of the cerci, and lack of wings. He mentions that the species usually has a yellowish or reddish stripe on the sides of the pronotum, and that the males have a white stripe on the top of the abdomen, so that all fits this fellow. Although the others on BugGuide aren't quite as flashy, we only have a few photos anyway so it's a small sample size.

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… metrioptera, 6 May, 2015 - 6:50pm

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Awesome, thanks

So could this actually be an adult then?

It matches this male well: http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/common/basic/ShowImage.aspx?TaxonNameID=1110041&ImageID=203031

… James Bailey, 6 May, 2015 - 7:19pm

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yes, I think this is an adult

Hadn't looked at OSF - now that I have, I'm even more convinced.

… metrioptera, 6 May, 2015 - 7:36pm

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interesting one

Overall shape reminds me of Aptenopedes, but I've never seen the reddish coloration on one before. If not that, something in that subfamily (melanoplinae). Definitely not Chortophaga in any case :)

I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow and see what I can do.

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… metrioptera, 3 May, 2015 - 8:51pm

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Can see what you mean with Aptenopedes

it doesn't match any of the species on the guide though does it?

… James Bailey, 5 May, 2015 - 7:59pm

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