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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Cyrtacanthacridinae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Schistocerca) » Gray Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca nitens)
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grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens
Copyright © 2008 Arlene Ripley

grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens
Dragoon Mountain foothills, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
November 19, 2007
Any ID help appreciated.
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Contributed by Arlene Ripley on 3 February, 2008 - 12:12pm
Last updated 30 October, 2008 - 10:41pm

Moved
Moved from Bird Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 30 October, 2008 - 10:41pm login or register to post comments

Thanks, John & Eric...
I should be able to find the adult of this nymph later this year. Will keep an eye out for it.
… Arlene Ripley, 5 February, 2008 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Schistocerca nitens probably
I haven't got the experience to place species, but your two most likely candidates there would be S. nitens and S. albolineata. Late date would argue for S. nitens. Another choice would be S. shoshone, but that is usually down in the riparian and agricultural/rural areas in the valleys, and again would likely be earlier. It is definitely a Schistocerca, looks like a 3rd instar nymph.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 February, 2008 - 5:51pm login or register to post comments

Not an ID
But the eyes look like Bird Grasshoppers (Schistocerca) to me.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/336/bgpage
But some others may be similar too?
… John R. Maxwell, 3 February, 2008 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes.
I would agree with John.
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 February, 2008 - 12:46pm login or register to post comments

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