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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Slant-faced Grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae) » Orphulella Group » Orphulella » Spotted-winged Grasshopper (Orphulella pelidna)
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Spotted-winged Grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna - female
Copyright © 2007 Robert A. Behrstock

Spotted-winged Grasshopper - Orphulella pelidna - Female
TEXDOT rest stop, Hwy. 281, approx. 14 mi S of Falfurrias, Brooks County, Texas, USA
November 5, 2007
Size: approx. 4 cm
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Contributed by Robert A. Behrstock on 31 January, 2008 - 10:15am
Last updated 29 January, 2009 - 10:48am

Orphulella pelidna
Interesting specimen. Usually the wings are longer in this species; however, the slender form, pattern, fastigum, and apparent twice cut lateral "carina" of the pronotum all match up with O. pelidna and not O. speciosa. Also, the fact that it was with "normal" O. pelidna argues for guilt by association.
… David J. Ferguson, 22 February, 2008 - 1:20am login or register to post comments

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