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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 » Paroxya » Atlantic Grasshopper (Paroxya atlantica)
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Atlantic grasshopper - Paroxya atlantica
Copyright © 2015 dcslaugh

Atlantic grasshopper - Paroxya atlantica
Riverview, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA
December 28, 2015
how old is this? seemed 10mm.
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Contributed by dcslaugh on 28 December, 2015 - 9:29pm
Last updated 30 December, 2015 - 10:18am

looks like a nymph of Paroxya atlantica
I can't tell you how old in days, perhaps a month or two old, depends on weather and how fast it has grown. However, it is more than half grown. From the size and position of the wings, it should be adult in two more molts (has one more nymphal growth state or "instar" to go through). Usually there are five instars, and if so this one would be in the fourth.

Moved from Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 28 December, 2015 - 11:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you! I was wondering a
Thank you! I was wondering about molts and instar and not calendar days, so thank you :)
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