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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 » Floridacris » Floridacris etami

Species Floridacris etami

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Print References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Melanoplinae (Spur-throated Grasshoppers)
Tribe Melanoplini
Genus Floridacris
Species etami (Floridacris etami)
Other Common Names
Robust Scrub Grasshopper (Deyrup & Carrel 2012)[as Aptenopedes robusta]
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Floridacris etami Otte, 2014
Identification
Adult males and females rather robust; distinguished from Aptenopedes and Floritettix by the presence of extremely narrow, slender tegmina (barely noticeable) which reach to (female) or across (male) the tympanum. Head more blunt than in Aptenopedes, which has wider tegmina. Hind tibiae pinkish.
Range
Central FL; reported from Polk county but seemingly present along the Lake Wales Ridge into Highlands and Glades counties
Habitat
Oak scrub (Deyrup & Carrel 2012) [as Aptenopedes robusta]
Season
June-December
Food
Associated with low scrubby oaks
See Also
Other members of Floridacris
Print References
Deyrup, M., & Carrel, J. E. (2012). Conservation Status and Management of Lake Wales Ridge Arthropods Restricted to Scrub Habitat. 10.13140/RG.2.1.2126.0321.
Hebard (1936). New genera and species of Melanopli found within the United States and Canada (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 62: 167-222. (full text pdf)
Otte, D. (2014). Aptenopedes and two new related genera in Florida, with a description of fourteen new species (Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 140(1), 245-292. (full text)
Contributed by metrioptera on 25 January, 2020 - 9:41am
Last updated 30 June, 2023 - 3:26pm

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