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Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - female

Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - Female
Horseneck Beach, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
August 28, 2007
On a paved trail near a beach and sand dunes

Melanoplus bivittatus
Hi, You've got a female Two-stripe Grasshopper here. This one and a few others on BugGuide are unusual in that the hind femur has dark color extending well below the mid-line. Usually the top half is dark, the bottom half light. Here is a thought (by no means necessarily true). I've long thought that M. differentialis and this species occasionally hybridize. This could possibly account for this pattern abnormality, as well as a few of the other really odd individuals that turn up now and then where the two are found together.

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