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The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian-speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan (doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages.
Dactylotum bicolor, also known as the rainbow grasshopper, painted grasshopper, or the barber pole grasshopper, is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.It is native to the United States, Canada and northern Mexico and exhibits aposematism (warning coloration).
During the Greek Archaic Era, the grasshopper was the symbol of the polis of Athens, [70] possibly because they were among the most common insects on the dry plains of Attica. [70] Native Athenians for a while wore golden grasshopper brooches to symbolise that they were of pure Athenian lineage with no foreign ancestors. [70]
Valanga irregularis (common name "giant grasshopper", "giant valanga" or "hedge grasshopper") belongs to the family Acrididae. The distribution is restricted in the Australian tropics and subtropics. The species is the largest grasshopper of the continent. Usually the animal lives a solitary mode of life.
In appearance, the species are often similar to those of the subfamily Gomphocerinae, with whom they share a slanted face.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 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 ...
An adult female Schayera baiulus is approximately 3.5 cm long, including its head and body, and is a flightless grasshopper. [5] The appearance of the Schayera baiulus is similar to Apotropis spp. [6] The male nymph specimen found suggests that an adult male would also be flightless due to the premature wing rudiments found on the young male grasshopper. [6]
Pseudochorthippus parallelus [2] (often known by its synonym Chorthippus parallelus), the meadow grasshopper, [3] is a common species of grasshopper in the tribe Gomphocerini. [4] It is found in non-arid grasslands throughout the well vegetated areas of Europe and some adjoining areas of Asia.