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entomolog: Tiny New Species Hops Around Beliz (by Jennifer Welsh) (photo credit: Sam W. Heads, Steven J. Taylor)  A newfound species of a tiny, grasshopperlike insect seems to be quite lonely, being the first of its family to be discovered in Belize, according to researchers. Scientists from the University of Illinois found the little hopper in the tropical rain forests of southern Belizeand named it Ripipteryx mopana, after a tribe of Mayans native to the region known as the Mopan people. The grasshopperlike species uses its large jumping hind legs to escape predators. Read more: http://www.livescience.com/18490-tiny-grasshopper-belize.html Via Ecdysozoa Zoom

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Tiny New Species Hops Around Beliz

(by Jennifer Welsh) (photo credit: Sam W. Heads, Steven J. Taylor) 

A newfound species of a tiny, grasshopperlike insect seems to be quite lonely, being the first of its family to be discovered in Belize, according to researchers.

Scientists from the University of Illinois found the little hopper in the tropical rain forests of southern Belizeand named it Ripipteryx mopana, after a tribe of Mayans native to the region known as the Mopan people. The grasshopperlike species uses its large jumping hind legs to escape predators.

Read more: http://www.livescience.com/18490-tiny-grasshopper-belize.html


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