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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Slant-faced Grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae) » Mermiria Group - Toothpick Grasshoppers » Mermiria » Two-striped Mermiria (Mermiria bivittata) » Mermiria bivittata bivittata
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toothpick hopper - Mermiria bivittata - female
Copyright © 2010 Marion Le Gall

toothpick hopper - Mermiria bivittata - Female
Balcones Canyonlands NWR, Gainer tract, Williamson County, Texas, USA
June 15, 2010
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Contributed by Paul Lenhart on 24 December, 2010 - 12:05am
Last updated 14 June, 2014 - 3:20pm

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… David J. Ferguson, 14 June, 2014 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

Most of the specimens from Balcones Canyonlands
seem to fit ssp. bivittatus better, so I'm going to put this one with the ohters (though being a nymph, it is possibly wrong). I'm not sure if the distinction is actually very meaningful in that region though, since both "subspecies" seem to occur there as part of the same populations.

Moved from Mermiria bivittata maculipennis.
… David J. Ferguson, 14 June, 2014 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Subspecies
Sure. I tend to disregard subspecies anyway. I don't think they are necessary and waste time when there are so many completely unknown species out there to describe.
… Paul Lenhart, 14 June, 2014 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

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