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Lubber Grasshopper from Mexico

Posted by October 1st, 2008 at 9:43 pm

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Good looking Orthoperan
Dear bugman, last year I sent in an unidentified Katydid from texas.
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2007/05/29/truncated-true-katydid-not-unknown- shieldback-katydid/
You did so much legwork tracking down people to get me that information that I figured I should return the favor with this shot of another Orthopteran. I’ve taken an entomology course since then and I am fairly sure he’s a Lubber grasshopper (Family Romaleidae). He was enjoying some Mayan ruins near Merida, Mexico.
He was about three inches long, and a slow mover.
Best, Dave
Mayan Ruins outside Yaxunah, Mexico

Lubber Grasshopper from Mexico

Lubber Grasshopper from Mexico

Hi Dave,
We agree that this looks like a Lubber Grasshopper, but we don’t recognize the species. Perhaps one of our readers will provide a comment with the correct identification.  It really is a comely specimen.

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