Stethophyma lineatum
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Stethophyma lineatum, the striped sedge grasshopper, is a species of band-winged grasshopper. It is found in North America from Newfoundland through the Great Lakes region to the Yukon. Stethophyma lineatum is placed in the Acridid grasshopper family, subfamily Oedipodinae (bandwings), tribe Parapleurini. The species was first described by Samuel Hubbard Scudder in an article published in the 1862 Boston Journal of Natural History. He called his species Arcyptera (Stethophyma) lineata, with the brackets indicating Stethophyma's status than as a subgenus of Arcyptera. A male lectotype from Massachusetts assigned in the late 20th century by Dan Otte is deposited in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. During the later 19th century, Stethophyma began to be referred to as a full genus rather than a subgenus. In 1896, Albert P. Morse published a paper in Psyche: according to him, several species of New England grasshopper had been improperly described as belonging to Arcyptera and Stethophyma. Morse moved these species into the genus Mecostethus, renaming Scudder's species Mecostethus lineatus. Morse's classification only lasted until 1926, however, when Morgan... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Bear Rainforest | 🇨🇦 Canada |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Striped Sedge Grasshopper sighting in Great Bear Rainforest on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 111th most-seen of the 235 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August and September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Striped Sedge Grasshopper in Great Bear Rainforest on a given day, against under 5% in October to July, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Striped Sedge Grasshopper sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Great Bear Rainforest, in our data
Great Bear Rainforest is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Striped Sedge Grasshopper sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Striped Sedge Grasshopper that you can see in Great Bear Rainforest (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Clear-Winged Grasshopper (about 10%) and Crackling Forest Grasshopper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Striped Sedge Grasshopper is recorded against all the insects logged in Great Bear Rainforest (11 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
