Lively mermiria grasshopper (Mermiria picta)

Mermiria picta
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Gomphocerinae
Tribe:	Mermiriini
Genus:	Mermiria
Scientific name
Mermiria picta (Walker, 1870)
Geography
Native countries:
United States

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Identification

Life cycle parameters

Phase	Stage	Color	Body length
Gregarious	nymph
Gregarious	immature adult
Gregarious	mature adult
Solitarious	nymph
Solitarious	adult

Identification resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
A Manual of the Grasshoppers of New Mexico	New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service,D.B. Richman, D.C. Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland and DJ. Ferguson	1993		View URL

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceMermiria picta

Traits

Habitat

Graminicole

Activity

Diurnal

Sound

Stridulation

Life cycle

Adults present

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Overwinters as

Egg

Life cycle parameters

Phase	Developmental time
Eggs
Hopper
Adult
Laying-fledging
Adult maturation
Total

Associated organizations

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
A Manual of the Grasshoppers of New Mexico	New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service,D.B. Richman, D.C. Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland and DJ. Ferguson	1993		View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Charles Hart — 6 specimens collected
• Theodore Henry Frison — 2 specimens collected
• Patrick Coin — 1 specimen collected

• Austin Kelly — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Tyler Grant — 2 specimens identified
• Patrick Coin — 1 specimen identified
• Austin Kelly — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

Biota Information System of New MexicoBugGuideCatalogue of LifeCONABIOEncyclopedia of LifeGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistIRMNGITIS TSNNatureServe ExplorerOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)