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Meadow Grasshopper on a stem #42725294
Description
A Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) climbs on the stem of a plant in order to get the warmth of the sun, in case of any danger it can jump and hide in the thick grass near to the ground. This specimen is the iberian peninsula subspecies C.p.erythropus. This grasshopper became quite important as it was used for the study of evolutionary biology and European phylogeography.