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Colorful grasshopper - Dactylotum bicolor
Copyright © 2008 David Bygott

Colorful grasshopper - Dactylotum bicolor
Elgin, Arizona, USA
October 4, 2008
Size: c. 40mm
In native grassland c.3 miles S of Elgin. Tends to run on ground to escape, rather than hop. Thought you must have this in the archives but can't find it - what a beauty!
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Contributed by David Bygott on 28 October, 2008 - 8:30pm
Last updated 4 November, 2008 - 2:35pm

I Want One
I like colorful insects and you definitely found one cool bug. Congratulations on your find, David.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 29 October, 2008 - 7:49am login or register to post comments

Dactylotum bicolor
Rainbow Grasshopper, Uncle Sam (though this one is a girl), Barber Pole Grasshopper, and so on. Very abundant this year in se. Arizona and a big chunk of New Mexico.
… David J. Ferguson, 28 October, 2008 - 10:39pm login or register to post comments

I'll let an expert make the ID....
...but sure looks like the drawing on the cover of "Field Guide to the Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets of the United States" by Carpinera, Scott and Walker.

Great photo.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 28 October, 2008 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Still not an ID
This photo does look like the cover painting, and on Plate 22, the ID is the Pictured Grasshopper, Dactylotum bicolor.

… Stephen Hart, 28 October, 2008 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

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