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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum)
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Pink Katydid? - Melanoplus femurrubrum - female
Copyright © 2014 Liz Pearson

Pink Katydid? - Melanoplus femurrubrum - Female
Pine City, Chemung County, New York, USA
September 10, 2014
I recently found this pink grasshopper in a meadow. Can someone help me with ID please. Is this called Erythrism? Thanks
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Contributed by Liz Pearson on 26 September, 2014 - 9:14am
Last updated 10 November, 2014 - 9:51pm

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 10 November, 2014 - 9:51pm login or register to post comments

a female Melanoplus sp.
Interesting coloration. Usually these are brownish.
… metrioptera, 26 September, 2014 - 9:55am login or register to post comments

 
Coloration
I believe this is a genetic mutation. I have seen it before in populations of UK Meadow Grasshoppers, but never here in the US. I found one newsreel report that sad it was rare but would like to know if that is true.
… Liz Pearson, 26 September, 2014 - 10:39am login or register to post comments

 
According to the info page, these occasionally come in several different color morphs, including pink.

Maybe others will have more insights.
… metrioptera, 26 September, 2014 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

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