Long-headed Toothpick Grasshopper Stock Photo

Classification Kingdom Animalia (Animals) Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) Class Insecta (Insects) Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids) Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers) Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers) Subfamily Gomphocerinae (Slant-faced Grasshoppers) No Taxon (Achurum Group - Spine-knee Toothpick Grasshoppers) Genus Achurum Species carinatum (Long-headed Toothpick Grasshopper) Size 24-40 mm Identification Elongated, reduced wings. Pale brown to gray, legs sometimes green. Face very slanted, antennae sword-like. Small wings--flightless. No spine between forelegs differentiates from toothpick grasshoppers in other subfamilies. Some tips for differentiating this from other toothpick grasshopper genera, at least in the Southeast (David Ferguson, in comments here): knee of hind femur in Achurum with distinctive points that stick backward eyes of Achurum not striped prominently face of Achurum concave