#tetrigidae

[ayanos-pl]

【庭】ヒシバッタ

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[usgsbiml]

Hug a Tetrigid Day (get it?).  Anyway Pygmy Grasshoppers get short shrift (get it again?) even in the already short of shrift Grasshopper public relations field.  Not sure which species this is, but just look at that face see what you are missing by spending all your time "liking" the bling insects.  Yes, Tetrigids have depth and subtlety and all that for a set of creatures whose diet is "Eat roots of plants or seedlings, mosses, fungi, algae, organic muck." according to Bugguide.net.  Perhaps there should be a Paleo Tetrigid Diet here to consider, once everything else is gone there may still be some organic muck to lap up.  Found at the proposed MAGLEV trainyard on our research Station.  Photo by Adam Grima.

[drhoz]

#1324 - Cyphotettix camelus? - Pygmy Grasshopper (Fam. Tetrigidae)

Another from the Alison Baird Reserve, spotted when I nearly stepped on it. Tetrigid grasshoppers. Pygmy Grasshopper are usually under 20mm in size, and this near-adult was smaller than my littlest fingernail. They’re most often found beside ponds and other wetlands, where they eat algae and diatoms. Some species are fully aquatic.

The lower end of the Alison Baird Reserve is seasonally wet, but most of the area is so flat, and has claypan so close to the surface, that it gets waterlogged each winter, from rainfall and water making its way down the Yule Brook Catchment. It’s these conditions that help make it such important habitat for carnivorous plants, and insects like these grasshoppers. Unfortunately, the various councils on the Swan Plain have so industriously built artificial drainage, and encouraged the planting of water-hungry non-native plants, that water levels in the reserve have already measurably declined. Some of the more vulnerable plants, even up in the sand dunes, have already died, and the spectacular and carnivorous Byblis Rainbow Plants are now under very serious threat, even where they didn’t get bulldozed to make way for industrial carparks.

[stewarti1]

Now that's camo! On a recent hike north of Putnam, IL I found a large number of these pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae). While similar to "normal" short horned grasshoppers in appearance, these adorable little critters are typically about 1cm or less. Most species have absent or greatly reduced wings, unlike their Acridid cousins, in favor of a robust ability to swim which aids in their abundance near bodies of water. An entomologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey, a former employer of mine, recently discovered a new species of pygmy grasshopper in Miocene amber that has much more developed wing structure suggesting developed wings as the ancestral trait. I'm also quite fond of the fact that Dr. Sam Heads named the new species after David Attenborough, a hero among naturalists!

[usgsbiml]

MAGLEV impact site, this is something that takes plant carbon and converts it to bird food.  Orthopterans are famous for this and drive many ecosystems sometimes to outbreak levels, sometimes like this little Tettrigid (am basing this ID on my college taxonomy courses).    Picture by Cole Cheng

[mbimphblog]

DIVERSITY OF GROUSE LOCUSTS (ORTHOPTERA- TETRIGIDAE) FROM WETLAND ECOSYSTEM OF KOLHAPUR AND SANGLI DISTRICTS OF WESTERN MAHARASHTRA | UTTAR PRADESH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Grouse locusts (Pigmy locusts) are phytophagous insects that can be found in abundance in wetland environments during the post-monsoon season. They love to reside under the leaves of dry plants. Grouse locusts are an essential food source for migrating birds, wetland reptiles, amphibians, and other wetland animals, and they play an important part in the ecosystem. There are 11 species of grouse locust that have been identified and investigated in terms of taxonomy. There were eight of them, eight of which were common and three of which were uncommon. In terms of seasonal abundance, the species Scelimena harpago was present all year, whereas the remaining 10 species were only found during the wet and winter seasons. The most frequent species, Ergatettix tarsalis, is reported in large numbers, followed by Euparatettix personatus. Thoradonta purthi, Hedotettix gracilis, Hedotettix lineifera, Ergatetix dorsifer, and Ergatettix guntheri species have been found in moderate quantities, whilst Acantholobus cuneatus, Systolederus cinereus, and Tetrix bipunctata species have only been found in very small numbers.

Please see the link :- http://mbimph.com/index.php/UPJOZ/article/view/2128

[ayanos-pl]

w moim odawarskim ogródku: owady skakunowate (Tetrigidae) i młoda modliszka in my garden in Odawara: groundhoppers (Tetrigidae) and a young mantis 【庭】ハラヒシバッタ(Tetrix japonica)とハネナガヒシバッタ(Euparatettix insularis)とカマキリの幼虫。 ヒシバッタにはシバタが含まれているという発見があったので、ヒシバッタはうちの子と言えるのではないか。