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Olive-green Swamp Grasshopper (Paroxya clavuliger)
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Copyright © 2007
John F. Carr
Swamp Grasshopper -
Paroxya clavuliger
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Cutler Park, Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
August 26, 2007
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Contributed by
John F. Carr
on 23 December, 2007 - 5:27pm
Last updated 24 December, 2007 - 12:40pm
Paroxya clavuliger male
Not a bad guess. It is a close relative of Melanoplus. The usually greenish color of the legs and abdomen, slender form, and in the male the long incurved cerci help to recognize this one.
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David J. Ferguson
, 24 December, 2007 - 11:41am
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Thanks
One of my two insect guides does not mention
Paroxya
at all. Marshall
(
1
)
has one picture of a different
Paroxya
species mixed in with a batch of
Melanoplus
and I overlooked the different genus.
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John F. Carr
, 24 December, 2007 - 12:48pm
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Orthoptera book
While it is outdated (1920), the best treatment of eastern US Orthoptera (and related insects) is
'Orthoptera of North-eastern America'
by W. S. Blatchley.
I hope Daniel Otte gets a volume on Spur-throat Grasshoppers published, to go with his previous two volumes on
Slant-face
and
Band-wing
Grasshoppers. Spur-throats can be very tough to identify, and the ones in the east give me a headache almost every time I try!
There are also on-line guides to grasshoppers in Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin that will overlap a lot with your area, and might be useful.
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David J. Ferguson
, 24 December, 2007 - 2:18pm
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