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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 » Lakin Grasshopper (Melanoplus lakinus)
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short-wing melanoplus - Melanoplus lakinus - male
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short-wing melanoplus - Melanoplus lakinus - Male
south of Sedona, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
September 20, 2015
Am wondering if this is a male Arid Lands or some other very small adult Melanoplus ? Many thanks for your time and help .... Denise K.

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Contributed by nature4me on 26 September, 2015 - 1:17pm
Last updated 27 September, 2015 - 9:52pm

male Melanoplus lakinus
The cerci are very distinctive, and they show clearly in the second and last photos. They are very wide with a narrow lobe sticking upward.

The coloring is a bit suggestive of M. aridus, but that one is a bit more slender, and the cerci are narrow and almost pointed.

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 27 September, 2015 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

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