ZVA male

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Description: English: Male of the variegated grasshopper of stink locust (Zonocerus variegatus) feeding on cassava photographed on 16/02/05 at the Biological Control Centre for Africa (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture) in Cotonou, Benin, by Christiaan Kooyman. Males generally have longer wings than females relative to their size. The wings may even surpass the tip of the abdomen (macropterous). Date: 16 February 2005. Source: Own work. Author: Christiaan Kooyman.