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Although "grasshopper" has been used as a common name for the suborder in general, [3] [4] [5] modern sources restrict it to the more "evolved" families. [6] They may be placed in the infraorder Acrididea [ 7 ] and have been referred to as "short-horned grasshoppers" in older texts [ 8 ] to distinguish them from the also-obsolete term "long ...
Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae (so they may be called "short-horned grasshoppers" [3]), and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment. Subfamilies
Tetrigidae [1] is an ancient family in the order Orthoptera, [2] which also includes similar families such as crickets, grasshoppers, and their allies. Species within the Tetrigidae are variously called groundhoppers , [ 3 ] pygmy grasshoppers , [ 4 ] pygmy devils [ 5 ] or (mostly historical) "grouse locusts".
However Acridinae differ from Gomphocerinae in that they lack stridulatory pegs on their hind legs and thus, as the common name suggests, do not make sounds. The antennae of this species is flattened and sword-like, a trait also shared with some gomphocerines and also with the spurthroated grasshoppers (subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae).
Eumastacidae are a family of grasshoppers sometimes known as monkey- or matchstick grasshoppers. They usually have thin legs that are held folded at right angles to the body, sometimes close to the horizontal plane. Many species are wingless and the head is at an angle with the top of the head often jutting above the line of the thorax and abdomen.
The club-horned grasshopper is found from the grasslands of western Canada and the northern United States to the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico, [5] commonly in northern mixed-grass prairies, mountain meadows, [6]: 12 and forested foothills. [7] It is the most common and widely distributed grassland grasshopper species in the Canadian ...
Brachystola magna, the plains lubber grasshopper, western lubber grasshopper or homesteader, is a large species of grasshopper in the family Romaleidae, native to open and semi-open habitats of central and southern United States and northern Mexico. [2] [3] [4] Adults are typically 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) long, with females growing larger than ...
The nymphs will molt three to four times before winter. The nymphs survive through the winter and then molt one or two more times to reach adulthood. C. viridifasciata is often the first grasshopper to appear in early spring because of its overwintering. [7] Green-striped grasshoppers typically have five instars during development. [7]