Animal field guide
Rice Grasshopper
Oxya hyla intricata
Oxya hyla intricata is a short-horned grasshopper of flooded rice and wet grass. Green sides carry a dark lateral stripe. Flattened hind legs help it move across still water when knocked from stems.
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Invertebrate · Native range keys: southeast_asia · Relatively common
Known for: Green body with a dark side stripe, Short antennae of a true grasshopper, Hind legs suited to wet paddies, Strong leaper among flooded stems
Understand the animal
Understand the Rice Grasshopper
Factual biology first: what this animal is like, where it lives, how it survives, and why those traits exist.
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Introduction to Rice Grasshopper
Oxya hyla intricata is a short-horned grasshopper of flooded rice and wet grass. Green sides carry a dark lateral stripe. Flattened hind legs help it move across still water when knocked from stems.
How to identify a Rice Grasshopper
- Green body with a dark side stripe
- Short antennae of a true grasshopper
- Hind legs suited to wet paddies
- Strong leaper among flooded stems
- Chews grass and rice leaf edges
Why Rice Grasshopper are interesting
- This subspecies belongs to Oxya, a genus tied to marshy grass and rice.
- When knocked into water, Oxya grasshoppers can swim using oar-like hind legs.
- Nymphs and adults often rest in groups on leaf blades in sunny paddies.
- After harvest, adults may shift onto nearby grasses and cane before eggs overwinter.
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Adaptations and biological abilities
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Why does Rice Grasshopper behave this way?
- Green body with a dark side stripe
- Short antennae of a true grasshopper
- Hind legs suited to wet paddies
- Strong leaper among flooded stems
- Chews grass and rice leaf edges
Active by day on sunlit leaves; quieter and less visible through cooler night hours.
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Why Native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies?
Habitat: Native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems.
Native range: Native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems.
Native range
Natural range, not this specific capture location.
Native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems.
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Why this diet?
Nymphs and adults chew soft leaf tissue of rice and other grasses.
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Activity, rest, and lifespan
Active by day on sunlit leaves; quieter and less visible through cooler night hours.
Adults may live through a warm growing season before the next generation rises.
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Rice Grasshopper reproduction
Females place frothy egg pods in damp soil or plant bases near wet fields. Nymphs hatch and feed among grass blades before wings fully form.
Females are stouter; males usually show longer antennae relative to body size.
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Predators, threats, and defense
Taken by paddy birds, frogs, spiders, and predatory insects hunting among wet stems.
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Conservation and rarity
Rarity: Relatively common · 11/100. AnimalDex canonical rarity score: 11/100, maintained by the live indexed species profile.
- Observe from a respectful distance and avoid changing the animal's behavior.
- Do not block feeding, shelter, nesting, or travel routes.
- Use a live camera capture without handling or staging wildlife.
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Where to find them
Where to find Rice Grasshopper
To find Rice Grasshopper in the wild, focus on the exact habitat patches that match its body design and daily behavior, not just the broad country where it exists. You usually do better by working one good piece of habitat inside native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems. than by covering too much ground.
- Quiet marsh edges, reedbeds, river bends, or shallow wetland margins
- Protected habitat blocks within native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems.
Animal field guide
Rice Grasshopper
Oxya hyla intricata is a short-horned grasshopper of flooded rice and wet grass. Flattened hind legs help it move across still water when knocked from stems.
Native range
Natural range, not this capture location
Native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems.
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Dominance
7
Speed
21
Size
3
Intelligence
6
Rarity
11%
Total
48
Size scale
Scientific name
Oxya hyla intricata
Category
Invertebrate
Habitat
Native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems.
Rarity
Relatively common · 11/100
Native range
Native range keys: southeast_asia. Flooded rice paddies, wet grassy edges, and lowland marshes with tall grasses and crop stems.
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