Slender Digging Grasshopper

Acrotylus patruelis · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Acrididae

Also called: Burrowing Grasshopper, Slender Burrowing Grasshopper

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Slender Digging Grasshopper
Photo: ChriKo, CC BY-SA 3.0

The slender digging grasshopper is a bandwing grasshopper species. It lives in dry open places such as savannahs, grasslands and Mediterranean shrublands, and it occurs across Africa, southern Europe and southwestern Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It is a bandwing grasshopper.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It is found in dry open habitats with bare ground, like savannah, grassland and Mediterranean shrubland.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its range includes Africa, southern Europe and southwestern Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Slender Digging Grasshopper photo 3
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Slender Digging Grasshopper photo 5
Photo: Holger Krisp, CC BY
Slender Digging Grasshopper photo 6
Photo: Holger Krisp, CC BY

Questions people ask

Where is the slender digging grasshopper found?

It occurs throughout Africa, southern Europe and southwestern Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

Same family (Acrididae)

Differential GrasshopperDifferential GrasshopperMelanoplus differentialisDamages trees, gardens or cropsTwo-striped GrasshopperTwo-striped GrasshopperMelanoplus bivittatusDamages trees, gardens or cropsCarolina GrasshopperCarolina GrasshopperDissosteira carolinaDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Field GrasshopperCommon Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneusEgyptian Bird GrasshopperEgyptian Bird GrasshopperAnacridium aegyptiumGray Bird GrasshopperGray Bird GrasshopperSchistocerca nitensDamages trees, gardens or crops

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_burrowing_grasshopper

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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