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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplus
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Grasshopper on Spider Lily - Melanoplus - female
Copyright © 2007 Kathleen

Grasshopper on Spider Lily - Melanoplus - Female
metro Atlanta, south Fulton County, Georgia, USA
September 10, 2007
Size: about 2 inches
and I am interested in what look like fake eyespots to me on the top of the head which I think would be pretty cool to have...as in making a predator perhaps come at another angle where perhaps more of the vision field available would make detection then escape all the better
comment please :-)
or do grasshoppers have more eyes than I am aware of! :-o

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Grasshopper on Spider Lily - Melanoplus - female Grasshopper on Spider Lily - Melanoplus - female
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Contributed by Kathleen on 10 September, 2007 - 5:17pm
Last updated 27 November, 2009 - 2:19pm

Have been trying for a long time
both to identify this to species (not there yet, but it is a female Melanoplus), and to figure out the "fake eye spots". All I see on top of the head is the top of the real (very large) compound eyes (which are reflecting white light). I hope that is the answer?

Moved from Spur-throated Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 15 November, 2009 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

Definitely in the subfamily Melanoplinae,
probably in the genus Melanoplus, but I'll double check that.

Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 9 August, 2008 - 2:08am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets.
… Eric R. Eaton, 9 October, 2007 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

Interesting
One I shot had fake "eyes" on the sides, behind and below the real things.
… Ron Hemberger, 10 September, 2007 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

 
very nice and thank you Ron!.
very nice and thank you Ron!....
so until I get an ID (from someone) I am going to browse about the grasshopper section here myself
… Kathleen, 10 September, 2007 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

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