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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Monkey Grasshoppers (Eumastacidae) » Morsea » Tamalpais Monkey Grasshopper (Morsea tamalpaisensis)
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Unusual grasshopper species - Morsea tamalpaisensis - female
Copyright © 2009 KurtS

Unusual grasshopper species - Morsea tamalpaisensis - Female
Cupertino Hills, inland chapparal habitat, altitude 500ft., Santa Clara County, California, USA
October 18, 2009
Size: body length ~ 20mm
I know this is a grasshopper, but it's unlike one I've ever seen--particularly in the length of the body and the perpendicular aspect of the jumping legs.

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Unusual grasshopper species - Morsea tamalpaisensis - female Unusual grasshopper species - Morsea tamalpaisensis - female Unusual grasshopper species - Morsea tamalpaisensis - female
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Contributed by KurtS on 18 October, 2009 - 5:54pm
Last updated 8 December, 2010 - 11:29pm

Morsea tamalpaisensis
Looks adult to me too, but it's hard to tell with this little critters.

Moved from Monkey Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 20 October, 2009 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 18 October, 2009 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

Exciting!
This is a species of "monkey grasshopper" in the family Eumasticidae (if I'm spelling it right). Not commonly seen, might be an adult female?
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 October, 2009 - 9:13pm login or register to post comments

Eumastacidae?
Eumastacidae?
… Tom, 18 October, 2009 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Yeah....
....what you said....Hey, it is not that common a family, how am I supposed to know how to spell it?:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 October, 2009 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

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