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Thursday, 7 June 2018

Red-winged grasshopper - Oedipoda miniata (Pallas, 1771) - Cyprus

Oedipoda miniata, sometimes known as the red-winged grasshopper (although the name is also used for O. germanica), is a grasshopper species in the subfamily Oedipodinae found in Southern Europe, northern Africa and the Middle-East.

It was originally described in 1771 as Gryllus miniatus. It is in the Oedipoda caerulescens species group

Oedipoda is a genus of grasshoppers, including the blue-winged grasshopper, Oedipoda caerulescens.

Photos Stavros Psocas 1/7/2018 by George Konstantinou





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