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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Band-winged Grasshoppers (Oedipodinae) » Hippiscini » Hippiscus » Wrinkled Grasshopper (Hippiscus ocelote)
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Cricket or Grasshopper - Hippiscus ocelote - female
Copyright © 2011 Elin Pierce

Cricket or Grasshopper - Hippiscus ocelote - Female
Shelby Forest, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA
September 3, 2011
Size: 2 inch
These can be common in open fields with lots of grass and shrubs; I've seen them individually resting on a stalk in early morning. They can be quite large. This one found its way into the house onto the carpet; I took a close-up before releasing it into the wild.
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Contributed by Elin Pierce on 3 October, 2011 - 9:03pm
Last updated 3 October, 2011 - 10:07pm

a female Wrinkled Grasshopper
Hippiscus ocelote

Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 3 October, 2011 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Very Cool
Thank you for IDing my "Camo" grasshopper!

What characterizes females (as opposed to males)?
… Elin Pierce, 4 October, 2011 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

 
male vs female
In this one, the female is much bulkier and less slender, probably about 4 or 5 times the mass of the male (guesstimating), and often almost twice as long. But, ignoring the huge difference in size, the female has an ovipositor made of four horn-like appendages that are held closely together at the end of the abdomen, making it somewhat pointed looking there. The male has a blunt rounded cap on the lower tip of the (usually much more slender and shorter) abdomen, making the end look rounded. With this species, the males usually fly much more actively than the females, often bouncing and turning some as they fly, but when they do fly, the females fly powerfully, and often in a direct straight(ish) long flight.
… David J. Ferguson, 4 October, 2011 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

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