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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Band-winged Grasshoppers (Oedipodinae) » Trimerotropini » Dissosteira » California Rose-Winged Grasshopper (Dissosteira pictipennis)
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grasshopper - Dissosteira pictipennis
Copyright © 2016 Joyce Gross

grasshopper - Dissosteira pictipennis
Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Santa Clara County, California, USA
September 6, 2015
Another Arphia ramona?

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 2 October, 2016 - 12:35am
Last updated 5 October, 2016 - 10:00pm

Moved
Moved from Band-winged Grasshoppers.
… Joyce Gross, 5 October, 2016 - 10:00pm login or register to post comments

ID
This is another Dissosteira pictipennis
… Alice Abela, 5 October, 2016 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks Alice!
Grasshoppers have a confusing (to me) amount of variation.
… Joyce Gross, 5 October, 2016 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Me too!
I've been looking at them for awhile now, but regularly find myself quite confused! D. pictipennis has quite a bit of variation in terms of body color, but the rose/pink color to the wing is distinctive as well as the relatively high once cut pronotal crest. A. ramona will have bright orange wings (not red/pink) and a lower once cut pronotal crest.
… Alice Abela, 5 October, 2016 - 10:13pm login or register to post comments

 
differences
Thanks for those details in the differences. Very helpful. Somehow I didn't even notice the differences in hind wing color -- I'm not good with colors. I see even their common names point out those color differences. :)
Now if I can just remember all this next time I catch a grasshopper...
… Joyce Gross, 6 October, 2016 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

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