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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Migratory Grasshopper (Melanoplus sanguinipes)
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Melanoplinae 01 - Melanoplus sanguinipes - male
Copyright © 2009 Karl Volkman

Melanoplinae 01 - Melanoplus sanguinipes - Male
Canyon Park, Bothell, Snohomish County, Washington, USA
October 4, 2008
Found on a rainy morning in the upper foliage of a low growing Rhododendron in the parking lot of a Washington Mutual.
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Contributed by Karl Volkman on 16 February, 2009 - 11:17am
Last updated 19 November, 2009 - 5:07pm

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 19 November, 2009 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

Melanoplus species
This is a male, but it is hard to say for sure which species, though it looks a lot like M. sanguinipes and probably that's what it is. A view showing the tip of the abdomen (if you have one) might make it possible to be sure.
… David J. Ferguson, 17 February, 2009 - 10:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Unfortunately
Unfortunately I was not able to get any other angles as I was with family and we were running late, Sorry!
… Karl Volkman, 21 February, 2009 - 2:36am login or register to post comments

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