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blue-legged grasshopper - Trimerotropis verruculata - male
Copyright © 2008 Lynette Elliott

blue-legged grasshopper - Trimerotropis verruculata - Male
Thompson Falls, Sanders County, Montana, USA
August 14, 2008
Metator pardalinus?
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 18 August, 2008 - 9:16am
Last updated 17 April, 2009 - 3:13pm

Moved
Moved from Band-winged Grasshoppers.
… Lynette Elliott, 21 August, 2008 - 7:14pm

Trimerotropis verruculata suffusa
He's kind'a pretty. They more often have black or dark brownish hind tibiae, but sometimes (especially the lighter colored ones) have blue. Metator looks quite different, and there is one on BugGuide now. I'm surprised there aren't more, as it is rather common in some areas, and rather an attention grabber (even though, unlike this species, it is silent when it flies).
… David J. Ferguson, 21 August, 2008 - 7:09pm

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