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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Pygmy Grasshoppers (Tetrigidae) » Tetriginae » Tetrix » Obscure Pygmy Grasshopper (Tetrix arenosa)
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Pygmy Grasshopper - Tetrix arenosa
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

Pygmy Grasshopper - Tetrix arenosa
Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
June 21, 2007
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Contributed by tom murray on 26 June, 2007 - 8:24am
Last updated 8 October, 2008 - 5:35pm

David
Thanks for all the pygmy grasshopper identifications! After looking at all the Tetrix species in Nearctica.com, it looks like you're calling this T. arenosa.
… tom murray, 8 October, 2008 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

Tetrix arenosa
is what it looks like.

Had it ending "us", some books have it that way, some with "a". The Orthoptera Species File has it with an "a", so I'll try to fix them all.
… David J. Ferguson, 7 October, 2008 - 11:53pm login or register to post comments

Wild.
Great image! This one has an upturned tip of the pronotal shield, no doubt an artifact of a bad molt to adulthood...but look at the coloration! This might be a bird-dropping mimic. I don't know that anyone has documented that possibility in tetrigids. Nice work.
… Eric R. Eaton, 26 June, 2007 - 1:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Eric
It does look rather unpalatable.
… tom murray, 26 June, 2007 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

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