Jago's cross-backed grasshopper
Dociostaurus jagoi
Name means: “it is named after Nicholas Jago, an English scientist who studied grasshoppers”
Jago's cross-backed grasshopper is a grasshopper that hops through grassy places. Like all grasshoppers, it has long, strong back legs for jumping. It got its name from a scientist who loved grasshoppers.
Lives in
The western Palearctic, the part of the world with Europe, North Africa and western Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it munches on grass and other green plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Jago's cross-backed 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
It was named after Nicholas Jago, an English scientist who studied grasshoppers and crickets.
2
Scientists split it into two subspecies, and both were described in 1978.
3
One of the two subspecies has its own English name, Jago's grasshopper.
you asked
Most asked questions about Jago's cross-backed grasshopper
?Who is Jago's grasshopper named after?
Nicholas Jago, an English scientist who studied grasshoppers and crickets.
?What does Jago's cross-backed grasshopper eat?
Grass and other green plants, like most grasshoppers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dociostaurus jagoi
- Named by
- Soltani, 1978
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Jago's grasshopper
Where the facts come from
- Dociostaurus jagoi (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 Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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