Plains Lubber Grasshopper
Brachystola magna
Identification 4
One of the largest grasshoppers in North America. Flightless and robust. Brown or green, sometimes colorful.
Resources 4
Grasshoppers of the Western U.S. Factsheet: http://idtools.org/id/grasshoppers/factsheet.php?name=13174
Occurrence 4
Knutson and Jacques (1935) and Knutson (1937) did not report this species for Iowa. SCAN shows 3 records for Iowa. One record is from 1936 in Plymouth County (https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=19878653). Two other records from 1965 seem strange because they come from Scott County Park in the east side of the state, well outside the known range of this species (https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1120560, https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1120613). This would be an interesting target species for any naturalists at Scott County Park. I have a strong suspicion it was actually a Sioux County park.
Habitat 4
Grasslands, often in association with sunflowers.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Michael Price, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Michael Price
- (c) Richard Fray, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Richard Fray
- (c) Greg Lasley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Greg Lasley
- (c) Tyler Grant, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
