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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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Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum
Copyright © 2007 seorrell@gmail.com

Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum
Geneva, Ontario County, New York, USA
August 11, 2007
Immature, maybe? On mint.
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Contributed by seorrell@gmail.com on 15 August, 2007 - 10:20am
Last updated 18 February, 2013 - 5:49pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Melanoplus Nymphs.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 February, 2013 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 14 August, 2008 - 5:51pm login or register to post comments

Melanoplus femurrubrum probably
I'm adding the word "probably", because I'm not certain, but I'm fairly sure it is this species. Too bad the rear end is clipped off, because in this last instar (probably 5th) the parts look almost the same as an adult in the male, and can be used for more positive identification (and this looks likely to be a male).
… David J. Ferguson, 31 March, 2008 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

Yes.
Ugh, another nymph! :-) Another Melanoplus sp, too. Great image, wish folks could shoot the ADULT 'hoppers that nicely (sigh).
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 August, 2007 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
The adults don't hang around long enough to get photo'ed (equal sigh)
… seorrell@gmail.com, 20 August, 2007 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

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