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Unknown Grasshopper - Melanoplus sanguinipes
Copyright © 2007 Michael Guenther

Unknown Grasshopper - Melanoplus sanguinipes
Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware, USA
October 8, 2007
Any thoughts on ID?
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Contributed by Michael Guenther on 7 November, 2007 - 8:39pm
Last updated 6 March, 2008 - 2:22pm

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 March, 2008 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

Melanoplus sp. male.
Male Melanoplus, don't know which species though.
… Eric R. Eaton, 8 November, 2007 - 12:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Melanoplus sanguinipes
I've been waiting till I could check out a few other names to comment on this one, but as I suspected, this is the only long-winged species with a notched subgenital plate that occurs in Delaware. So, that's what it is. The coloration is correct for this species as well. If the underside of the thorax showed (it doesn't), there should be a distinctive little bump there too.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 February, 2008 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

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