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Species Psoloessa texana - Texas Spotted Range Grasshopper

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Gomphocerinae (Slant-faced Grasshoppers)
No Taxon (Aulocara Group)
Genus Psoloessa
Species texana (Texas Spotted Range Grasshopper)
Other Common Names
Texas Brown-spotted Grasshopper
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Psoloessa texana Scudder, 1875
Range
NE-CA and south into MX (1)
Habitat
Bare open ground with scanty vegetation; in AZ one of the most common and ubiquitous desert grasshoppers (1)
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