| Stripe-winged Grasshopper (Stenobothrus lineatus (Panzer, 1796)) |
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Scientific name: Stenobothrus lineatus (Panzer, 1796) Common name: Stripe-winged Grasshopper French name: Criquet de la palène, Sténobothre de la palène, Sténobothre ligné, Criquet du brachypode. Order: Orthoptera Family: Acrididae Wingspan : Males: 15 to 19 mm; Females: 21 to 26 mm. Biotope: Dry meadows, heath lands, rocky places. Geographic area: Europe and Asia, missing in the northern regions. Observation period : Late June to late October. |
Grasshoppers of the Stenobothrus genus are characterized by angulous side-keels on the pronotum, by the lack of basal lobes on the tegmina and by the veins on the tegmina which show an expanded median field with transversal vein drawing like a ladder shape. The Stripe-winged Grasshopper is variable in colour, often green but sometimes brown or purple. The males' abdomen tip is often red. There is a white line running from the back of the eye and continuing over the angulous side-keel of the pronotum. This line is bordered with dark, first on the under side and then on the upper side. The tegmina show a comma-shaped white mark located about at two thirds of the length, at the back. There may be a white stripe on the upper edge of the tegmina and, on females, a beginning of a white stripe on the lower edge. |
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The angulous side-keels, the lack of basal lobes, the expanded median field and the location of the comma-shaped white mark indicate the Stripe-winged Grasshopper species. |
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This specimen does not show any white stripe on the edge of the tegmina. |
André Bon November 2013