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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 » Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) » Melanoplus bivittatus femoratus
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Long-winged grasshopper near stream - Melanoplus bivittatus - male
Copyright © 2016 Martin R Lucas

Long-winged grasshopper near stream - Melanoplus bivittatus - Male
Lena Park, Starke County, Indiana, USA
July 16, 2016
Size: medium
In marsh/prairie vegetation near the banks of Bogus Run in the Kankakee sand region. To me, it appears to be a Melanoplus, similar to M.foedus, or M. packardii -- but those are more tawny (this one's quite green) and those also seem to range more to the west.
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Contributed by Martin R Lucas on 17 July, 2016 - 7:36am

male Melanoplus bivittatus
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 17 July, 2016 - 8:00am login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
Thank you Brandon. Sometimes it's all about perception -- I was thinking this had three dark stripes against a light green background. If I had considered that it could also be viewed as two light green stripes against a dark background I might I have figured it out.
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