Short-winged rice grasshopper

Pseudoxya diminuta

Eats: Plants Grasshoppers and cricketsRainforests and jungles6 legs

This is a grasshopper from warm parts of Southeast Asia and southern China. Like other grasshoppers, it has long, strong back legs for jumping. Scientists still know only a little about it.

Lives in

Southeast Asia and southern China

Top speed

about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)

On foot, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless. It does not sting.

What does it eat?

Like other grasshoppers, it eats plants.

Photo of Short-winged rice grasshopper — Picture by Obsidian Soul. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Short-winged rice grasshopper about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)

cool stuff

Fun facts

It is the only kind of grasshopper in its little group, called Pseudoxya.

The very first one that scientists described was a male from Yunnan in China.

Like all insects, it has six legs, and the back two are made for jumping.

you asked

Most asked questions about Short-winged rice grasshopper

?Where does the short-winged rice grasshopper live?

In Southeast Asia and southern China.

?Is the short-winged rice grasshopper dangerous?

No. It is a harmless plant eater.

For bug experts

Scientific name: Pseudoxya diminuta
Group: Grasshoppers and crickets
Family: Acrididae
Classification: Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
Lives on: Asia

Where the facts come from

Pseudoxya (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
Picture by Obsidian Soul. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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