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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 Dann Thombs

Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum
Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
September 3, 2007
I'm thinking part of Genus Melanoplus due to the shape, but can't find a matching color.
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Contributed by Dann Thombs on 4 September, 2007 - 9:27am
Last updated 24 February, 2008 - 9:39am

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… Dann Thombs, 24 February, 2008 - 9:39am login or register to post comments

Melanoplus femurrubrum male
Looks like one of those really strikingly colored individuals of the Red-legged Grasshpopper.
… David J. Ferguson, 22 February, 2008 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

Yes.
It is indeed a Melanoplus sp, but color means virtually nothing in this genus. ID hinges on the genitalia and shape of the cercus in adult males.
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 September, 2007 - 2:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, moved to genus lev
Thank you, moved to genus level.
… Dann Thombs, 5 September, 2007 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

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