{"id":43505,"date":"2013-07-27T16:51:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T15:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=43505"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:32:11","slug":"snouted-or-long-headed-grasshopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/snouted-or-long-headed-grasshopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Snouted (or Long headed) grasshopper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acrida ungarica (Truxalis nasuta) – Orthoptera – Acrididae (Spain) – I have wished to photograph a specimen for some years and coming across one is quite an excitement! They come also in green! Common in the Emirates but can been found more rarely also in the south-east of France, Corsica and Spain; its length reaches 8 cm for females, males are smaller!<\/p>\n

They live in hot and dry places where temperatures can soar up to 45\u00b0C in summer. That day it was cool, only 35\u00b0C! The under-wings are exquisite: whitish with dark red at the base. This one is definitely a female considering her size: so here is “big mummy long-legs”!<\/p>\n

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Acrida ungarica (Truxalis nasuta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Truxale m\u00e9diterran\u00e9enne, prise en Espagne mais on la trouve aussi en Corse et dans le sud-est de la France. Elle fait partie de la grande famille des criquets et plus particuli\u00e8rement de la sous-famille des Acridinae, les plus grands des criquets europ\u00e9ens.<\/p>\n

Son vol est impressionnant, d\u00e9voilant de grandes ailes blanches avec la base couleur fuchsia. La forme des antennes est assez particuli\u00e8re; elles sont aplaties \u00e0 la base, s\u2019effilant \u00e0 la pointe avec des segments arrondis. Ses pattes sont \u00e9galement d\u00e9mesur\u00e9es!<\/p>\n

Ce sp\u00e9cimen est une femelle de forme beige faisant pr\u00e8s de 8 cm, soit presque la largeur de ma main; les m\u00e2les sont nettement plus petits, 5 \u00e0 6 cm environ. La forme verte existe aussi comme souvent chez les acridid\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

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Acrida ungarica (Truxalis nasuta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Acrida ungarica (Truxalis nasuta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Acrida ungarica (Truxalis nasuta)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acrida ungarica (Truxalis nasuta) – Orthoptera – Acrididae (Spain) – I have wished to photograph a specimen for some years and coming across one is quite an excitement! They come also in green! Common in the Emirates but can been found more rarely also in the south-east of France, Corsica and Spain; its length reaches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2193086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ha2NntoOFBw\/UeJrb_LtEoI\/AAAAAAAAedI\/TcqEhvUUDI4\/s1600\/Truxale-D5200C-2689_070613.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Snouted (or Long headed) grasshopper","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5141,5142,2571,189],"class_list":["post-43505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-acrida-ungarica","tag-acrididae","tag-noushka","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}