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| name = Koppie foam grasshopper |
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Dictyophorus_spumans01.jpg|<center>Mating</center> |
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Koppie foam grasshopper (Dictyophorus spumans spumans) 2.jpg|dorsal view |
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Sani-Dictyophorus-Spumans.jpg|ventral view |
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Dictyophorus spumans, Skeerpoort, b.jpg|<center>Releasing toxic foam from thoracic glands</center> |
Dictyophorus spumans, Skeerpoort, b.jpg|<center>Releasing toxic foam from thoracic glands</center> |
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Revision as of 15:28, 24 January 2022
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| Nymph both in Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Roodepoort, South Africa | |
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| Dictyophorus spumans (Thunberg, 1787)
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Dictyophorus spumans, the koppie foam grasshopper or rooibaadjie, is a species of grasshopper in the family Pyrgomorphidae indigenous to Africa. The name "foaming grasshopper" derives from the insect's ability to produce a toxic foam from its thoracic glands.[2] It is closely related to Phymateus.
It grows up to a length of 80 millimetres (3.1 in). The neck shield has a warty surface, and their color is highly variable. It is toxic due to the poisons that it sequesters from its diet, which includes a large number of toxic and distasteful plants such as milkweed.[3]
Races
- D. s. subsp. spumans – South Africa
- D. s. subsp. ater – northern South Africa and Zimbabwe
- D. s. subsp. pulchra – eastern South Africa and Mozambique
- D. s. subsp. servillei – widespread in Africa
- D. s. subsp. calceata – widespread in Africa
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References
- ^ Googlebooks
- ^ Whitehouse, Christopher. "Foaming Grasshoppers". Phillipskop Mountain Reserve. Phillipskop Discovery Trails (Pty) Ltd. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ Mike Picker, Charles Griffiths & Alan Weaving (2004). Field guide to insects of South Africa. Struik. ISBN 978-1-77007-061-5.
Media related to Dictyophorus spumans at Wikimedia Commons