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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) » Orphulella Group » Orphulella » Spotted-winged Grasshopper (Orphulella pelidna)
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Spotted-winged Grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna - female
Copyright © 2011 Dave Beaudette

Spotted-winged Grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna - Female
Cienega Creek Preserve, Pima County, Arizona, USA
May 13, 2011
Found in heavy grass on steep bank, flushed onto adjacent habitat.

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Spotted-winged Grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna - female Spotted-winged Grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna - female
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Contributed by Dave Beaudette on 17 May, 2011 - 10:11am
Last updated 23 May, 2011 - 11:04pm

I think your first instinct was correct
I also see another trait that I should have caught right off. The number of teeth on the hind tibia is way to low for a Syrbula of this age.

Moved from Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 19 May, 2011 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

How big?
I'm inclined to say you are correct. Syrbula montezuma also comes to mind, but I think the hind femora would be slimmer (?).
… David J. Ferguson, 18 May, 2011 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Not measured,
but guessing a little larger than 1/2 inch... montezuma certainly is another to consider. Would montezuma have a larger head ?
… Dave Beaudette, 18 May, 2011 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

 
probably not montezuma
I think it would probably be larger in the 5th instar. I think yours is a male though, which is the smaller gender. The faveolae appear to be angled up a bit, and I think that might be more typical of Orphulella well (I should have noticed that right off).
… David J. Ferguson, 19 May, 2011 - 12:15am login or register to post comments

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