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Grasshopper

Photo by LarryGraziano
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Field Notes

Description:

this grasshopper is medium sized. it measured 1.5" long

Habitat:

tropical humid forest in SW Costa Rica at sea level.

Species ID Suggestions

Green Bush Cricket

tettigonia viridissima
Raimundo
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Comments (1)
bayucca
Tettigonia viridissima is a European species and not found in Costa Rica. And it is not a bush cricket or katydid, but a grasshopper and most probably a grasshopper nymph. Katydid would have much longer antennae.

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Paso Pacifico Survey
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El mini-mundo de Costa Rica
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2012 Best Wildlife Photo
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Insects of Costa Rica
Photographed
PublishedAugust 11, 2012

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