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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 » Olive-green Swamp Grasshopper (Paroxya clavuliger)
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Swamp Grasshopper - Paroxya clavuliger - male
Copyright © 2007 John F. Carr

Swamp Grasshopper - Paroxya clavuliger - Male
Cutler Park, Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
August 26, 2007
Melanoplus?
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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.
… David J. Ferguson, 24 December, 2007 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

 
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.
… John F. Carr, 24 December, 2007 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

 
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While it is outdated (1920), the best treatment of eastern US Orthoptera (and related insects) is'Orthoptera of North-eastern America' by W. S. Blatchley.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.
… David J. Ferguson, 24 December, 2007 - 2:18pm login or register to post comments

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