Longhorn band-wing grasshopper
Psinidia fenestralis
The longhorn band-wing grasshopper is a grasshopper from North America and the Caribbean. It belongs to the band-winged grasshoppers, which often hide colourful back wings under their plain front wings. It has so many names that it hardly knows what to answer to.
Lives in
North America and the Caribbean
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting or bite people.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it eats grass and other plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Longhorn band-wing 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
1
People also call it the sand locust, the long-horned locust and the long-horned grasshopper.
2
It lives in North America and on islands in the Caribbean.
3
It belongs to the band-winged grasshoppers, a big group of grasshoppers.
you asked
Most asked questions about Longhorn band-wing grasshopper
?Is the longhorn band-wing grasshopper dangerous?
No. It is a harmless plant eater.
?Where does the longhorn band-wing grasshopper live?
In North America and on Caribbean islands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psinidia fenestralis
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Long-horned grasshopper, Long-horned locust, Sand locust
Where the facts come from
- Psinidia fenestralis (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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