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large green grasshopper nymph - Schistocerca nitens
Copyright © 2009 Lynette Schimming

large green grasshopper nymph - Schistocerca nitens
Palm Desert - The Living Desert, Riverside County, California, USA
April 4, 2009
Gray Bird Grasshopper? I found a brown nymph of that grasshopper there last year. Is this the green version?
Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 9 April, 2009 - 7:24pm
Last updated 9 April, 2009 - 11:57pm

Moved
Moved from Bird Grasshoppers.
… Lynette Schimming, 9 April, 2009 - 11:57pm

quite probably
Judging from the pattern, I'd say it's quite likely that species. Another posibility is S. shoshone, but I doubt it's that one. The nymphs of Schistocerca can be very difficult, because the colors vary so much in the same species, and different species can look very similar. Some individuals show elements of the adult pattern (this one has a pale rear margin on the pronotum), but many do not.
… David J. Ferguson, 9 April, 2009 - 11:53pm

 
Thanks David,
I'm going to move it there.
… Lynette Schimming, 9 April, 2009 - 11:57pm

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