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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 » Aidemona » Aztec Spur-throat (Aidemona azteca)
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Acrididae - Aidemona azteca - female
Copyright © 2010 Doug Danforth

Acrididae - Aidemona azteca - Female
Mule Mts northwest of Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
November 7, 2010
at about 5800' on oak/juniper hillside
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Contributed by Doug Danforth on 7 November, 2010 - 4:02pm

An adult female Aidemona
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 7 November, 2010 - 4:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks David
I guess I have only seen nymphs. Are the smokey wings and nondescript body the main field marks?
… Doug Danforth, 7 November, 2010 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Basically, yes
The pattern in the eye, the fact that the eyes are very close together on top, the relatively squared junction of the top with the sides of the pronotum (the "shoulders"), the usually paler top than sides, and so on, are all characteristic. None is in itself diagnostic, but together they make for a fairly distinctive looking insect.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 November, 2010 - 10:59pm login or register to post comments

 
David, Thanks
It's good to have some key characteristics.
… Doug Danforth, 9 November, 2010 - 6:12am login or register to post comments

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