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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 - female
Copyright © 2007 Tiffany

grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - Female
Littleton, Arapahoe/Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
October 15, 2006

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grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - female grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - female
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Contributed by Tiffany on 2 December, 2007 - 7:53pm
Last updated 28 October, 2009 - 9:52am

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 March, 2008 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

Melanoplus femurrubrum probably
I'm not certain, but fairly sure of the species. This is a specimen that has just molted. The wings may have not expanded properly, but since the color pattern of the nymph still dominates (the very different adult pattern would show soon) the wings were probably still in the process of expanding. Usually the insect would be perched in a vertical position at this time, rather than horizontal as this one. This seemed worth further comment, because there are few photos here of grasshoppers at this stage of development.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 January, 2008 - 3:42am login or register to post comments

Female Melanoplus sp.
This is a tattered female in the genus Melanoplus. Females of most species cannot be identified reliably without being associated with males.
… Eric R. Eaton, 3 December, 2007 - 12:39pm login or register to post comments

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