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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Band-winged Grasshoppers (Oedipodinae) » Trimerotropini » Dissosteira » Carolina Grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina)
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Impressive - Dissosteira carolina - male
Copyright © 2005 volcano

Impressive - Dissosteira carolina - Male
Cary, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
June 22, 2005
What a perfect blend. Did not seem to mind the sweltering heat of the parking lot during a very hot and sunny day.
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Contributed by volcano on 28 June, 2005 - 11:46pm
Last updated 4 December, 2008 - 3:49am

Moved
Moved from Seaside Grasshopper.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 8 July, 2008 - 10:04pm login or register to post comments

Dissosteira carolina
This one has bothered me for a while, but I never really took a good look at it. The speckling threw me for a while, and I kept thinking Spharagemon, but the proportions are wrong. Then I had one of those "duh" moments. This is a Carolina Grasshopper with extra strong markings. There are a few others similarly marked here on BugGuide. The angle of the shot makes it not obvious, but notice that there is a strong ridge on the middle of the pronotum. The rear part of the pronotum is nearly flat on T. maritima.

Sorry about the empty comments above, they kept getting duplicated, and that's the closest to deleting them I could get :{
… David J. Ferguson, 21 October, 2007 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

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… David J. Ferguson, 21 October, 2007 - 6:22pm login or register to post comments

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… David J. Ferguson, 21 October, 2007 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

Oops!
This somehow got misclassified as a pygmy grasshopper! Ha! Most likely Trimerotropis maritima. Moving to that guide page.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 January, 2006 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

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