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Species Stethophyma lineata - Striped Sedge Grasshopper

Stethophyma? 7.26.09 01b - Stethophyma lineata - male

Stethophyma? 7.26.09 01d - Stethophyma lineata - male

Striped Sedge Grasshopper female in Fundy National Park - Stethophyma lineata - female

Striped Sedge Grasshopper - Stethophyma lineata - Stethophyma lineata - male

Striped Sedge Grasshopper - Stethophyma lineata - male

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 Oedipodinae (Band-winged Grasshoppers)

Tribe Parapleurini

Genus Stethophyma

Species lineata (Striped Sedge Grasshopper)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Arcyptera lineata S.H. Scudder 1862. Type locality: Sanborn, Massachusetts

Stethophyma lineata (Scudder) C.H. Fernald 1888

Mecostethus lineatus (Scudder) Morse 1896

Identification

Spines on hind tibiae completely black; side of forewings with white streak; lateral carinae cut by three sulci (1)

Range

Alaska to Newfoundland, south to about NJ (1). Seems to have disappeared from much of its southern range

Habitat

low boggy meadows, swamps, marshes, and edges of lakes (1)

Season

Adults from July to September (1)

Food

Probably mostly sedges

Works Cited

1.	The North American Grasshoppers, volume I, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae and Acridinae Daniel Otte. 1981. Harvard.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 14 December, 2008 - 3:22pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, Denis Doucet, metrioptera
Last updated 25 August, 2020 - 11:33pm

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