David Element
Wildlife
Photography and Digital Video Images
_____________________________________________________Grasshoppers
and Crickets 9 - Meadow Grasshoppers
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f)
MEADOW GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus
parallelus (f) MEADOW GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus
parallelus (f)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f) brown form
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (f) pink form
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (m)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus (m)
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus nymph
MEADOW
GRASSHOPPER Pseudochorthippus parallelus nymph
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The Meadow Grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus
is one of the commonest British grasshoppers and it is variable in appearance,
with predominantly green or brown colouration. However, the length of the wings
is normally (but not always) reduced in the adults of both sexes, most obviously
so in females. Some of these may be a beautiful shade of pink. The long-winged
form explicatus
of P. parallelus males can cause confusion
with other species. The slightly incurved markings on the side keels of the pronotum
often used for identification, may be faint or absent in some specimens. The
macropterous form of the male may be particularly difficult to distinguish from
the male Lesser Marsh Grasshopper C. albomarginatus,
and the darkened knees of the hindlegs, typical of P. parallellus
are not always as clearly marked as one would like them to be. Trying to
identify nymphs (and adult grasshoppers for that matter) may be both challenging
and time-consuming!
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