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Species Stethophyma gracilis - Graceful Sedge Grasshopper

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A male in the wet meadow at our new home - Stethophyma gracilis - male Stethophyma gracilis - male Stethophyma gracilis - female Unknown grasshopper - Stethophyma gracilis - female Stethophyma gracilis - female Stethophyma gracile - Stethophyma gracilis - male Stethophyma gracilis - male Stethophyma gracilis - 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 gracilis (Graceful Sedge Grasshopper)

Other Common Names

Northern Sedge Grasshopper

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Arcyptera gracilis S.H. Scudder 1862. Type locality Red River, Winnepeg, Manitoba
Arcyptera platyptera 1862. Type locality: New England
Mecostethus gracilis Morse 1896
Mecostethus platypterus Morse 1896
Stethophyma gracile Hebard 1928
Stethophyma platyptera Hebard 1934

Identification

Spines on hind tibiae completely black; side of forewings without white streak; lateral carinae cut by one or two sulci (1)

Range

Southern Canada, probably from coast to coast, and northern US as far south as Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado (only in cool upland areas in the west). Seems to have disappeared from much of its southern range.

Habitat

rank vegetation, mostly sedges, in moist to wet areas

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 Eric R. Eaton on 25 January, 2006 - 2:37pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, Denis Doucet, metrioptera
Last updated 25 August, 2020 - 11:31pm

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