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Rice Grasshopper
Pseudoxya diminuta
15.4561, 119.921
Field Notes
Description:
Pseudoxya diminuta Walker, 1871. These are nymphs of Pseudoxya diminuta. According to Wikipedia, Pseudoxya is a monotypic genus which means that it is a genus with only one species - P. diminuta. I have seen groups of these nymphs several times over the years, but this is a really big congregation. I tried doing just an approximate count, but it was useless. It is difficult to count little creatures that keep moving around and even when I reached an approximate tally, I would notice another one or two groups. So, I soon gave up on the counting and jotted down in my notebook - A lot !
Habitat:
I spotted this congregation of Pseudoxya diminuta nymphs in our backyard vegetable plot, this afternoon. They were pretty much everywhere, but most of them were on the string beans.
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