Pine Tree Spurthroat? - Dissosteira carolina

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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 » Carolina Grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina)

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Copyright © 2007 Jennifer Forman Orth

Pine Tree Spurthroat? - Dissosteira carolina -

Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 19, 2005

I think this is Melanoplus punctulatus, can anyone confirm? Color is washed out because of the camera flash.

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Contributed by Jennifer Forman Orth on 4 August, 2007 - 9:07pm
Last updated 6 June, 2010 - 9:15pm

Moved

Moved from Melanoplus.

… Eric R. Eaton, 6 August, 2007 - 4:33pm

I don't think that this is [i

I don't think that this is Melanoplus punctulatus. I think this is Dissosteira carolina. The deeply notched pronotum (top of the thorax) is diagnostic. The color of this one is quite unique, having the green undertones. Good picture.

… Chad Lensbower, 6 August, 2007 - 4:06pm

Thanks

Thanks for the correction. I looked again and I still cannot tell the difference :-).

… Jennifer Forman Orth, 7 August, 2007 - 12:06am

Agreed.

Good call, Chad. A Carolina grasshopper it is.

… Eric R. Eaton, 6 August, 2007 - 4:32pm

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