Grasshopper or Cricket for ID please

sunnydale · #1 (**permalink**) 09-06-2011, 07:57 PM

Hi all

I'm not very good at these

..... so I need help please - if possible!

This little fella was tiny!

Thanks,

Tracey

Geoff F · #2 (**permalink**) 09-06-2011, 08:09 PM

Well the easy bit, Tracey, is that it is a grasshopper - short antennae.

But it is also immature (nymph) which makes identification very difficult.

As a complete guess, I would be tempted to consider Meadow Grasshopper. But other people may have other ideas; and they could be correct.

sunnydale · #3 (**permalink**) 09-06-2011, 08:17 PM

Thanks for your help Geoff

ger · #4 (**permalink**) 09-06-2011, 09:50 PM

Any chance it would be omocestus viridulus....????wouldn't the pronotum be much more keeled if it was chorthippus brunneus???? or at least it is in the adult anyway....but then It could be different with nymphs!!!
Ger

Geoff F · #5 (**permalink**) 10-06-2011, 08:07 PM

Yes Ger, Chorthippus brunneus (Field Grasshopper) should have much more angled keels, even in a nymph.

Omocestus viridulus (Common Green) is quite possible here as it has rather slight keels in much the same way as Chorthippus parallelus (Meadow).

C. parallelus is probably the more common but I don't think an exact answer is possible here.

david156 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-06-2011, 10:44 PM

Would a side on view help?

Cheers David

Geoff F · #7 (**permalink**) 11-06-2011, 09:08 PM

If it was an adult that view would have been a big help but I think nothing short of asking it's name will help with identifying a nymph from a photo.