Re: AW Insect Book: Crickets, Grasshoppers & Locusts - Photo
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:38 pm
Bushhopper Schulthessiella minuta
Superfamily Eumastacoidea. Family Thericleidae. Subfamily Thericleinae. Tribe Schulthessiellini
© Lisbeth
Female, Kruger National Park
© Klipspringer
Male, Kruger National Park
Thericleidae are small stocky grasshoppers with very short antennae and powerful hind legs. They have 2 well-developed spurs at inner ends of hind tibiae.
They occur on shrubs and small trees rather than grasses.
Common genera in Southern Africa:
Megalithericles, Thericlesiella, Barythericles, Lophothericles, Whitea, Xenothericles, Dysidiothericles, Microthericles, Icmalides, Mistothericles, Nepiothericles, Pseudothericles, Stenothericles, Raphithericles, Schulthessiella, Thericles, Athlithericles, Bufothericles
There are six species in the genus, all endemic to the eastern parts of southern Africa:
Schulthessiella difficilis
Schulthessiella forficata
Schulthessiella longicornis
Schulthessiella minuta
Schulthessiella odzaniae
Schulthessiella sellata
According to Descamps (Descamps. 1977. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Cent. 8(216) Zool.:299) Schulthessiella minuta is the only Schulthessiella recorded within South Africa.
Schulthessiella minuta male las long terminal sub-genital lobes, strongly narrowed towards the tip (which is itself strongly curved inwards and downwards). The hind femur is very large with strongly laterally compressed upper carène (ridge).
Links:
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... ID=1119124
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Superfamily Eumastacoidea. Family Thericleidae. Subfamily Thericleinae. Tribe Schulthessiellini
© Lisbeth
Female, Kruger National Park
© Klipspringer
Male, Kruger National Park
Thericleidae are small stocky grasshoppers with very short antennae and powerful hind legs. They have 2 well-developed spurs at inner ends of hind tibiae.
They occur on shrubs and small trees rather than grasses.
Common genera in Southern Africa:
Megalithericles, Thericlesiella, Barythericles, Lophothericles, Whitea, Xenothericles, Dysidiothericles, Microthericles, Icmalides, Mistothericles, Nepiothericles, Pseudothericles, Stenothericles, Raphithericles, Schulthessiella, Thericles, Athlithericles, Bufothericles
There are six species in the genus, all endemic to the eastern parts of southern Africa:
Schulthessiella difficilis
Schulthessiella forficata
Schulthessiella longicornis
Schulthessiella minuta
Schulthessiella odzaniae
Schulthessiella sellata
According to Descamps (Descamps. 1977. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Cent. 8(216) Zool.:299) Schulthessiella minuta is the only Schulthessiella recorded within South Africa.
Schulthessiella minuta male las long terminal sub-genital lobes, strongly narrowed towards the tip (which is itself strongly curved inwards and downwards). The hind femur is very large with strongly laterally compressed upper carène (ridge).
Links:
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Commo ... ID=1119124
Biodiversity Explorer