Brown-spotted Range Grasshopper ovipositing - Psoloessa delicatula

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Slant-faced Grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae) » Aulocara Group » Psoloessa » Brown-spotted Range Grasshopper (Psoloessa delicatula)

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Brown-spotted Range Grasshopper ovipositing - Psoloessa delicatula -

Pawnee National Grasslands, near Greeley, Weld County, Colorado, USA
May 15, 2007

Is this a female ovipositing? Some of the coloring, and the body shape, size gives me some confusion as to who it is. Looks different than Xanthippus corallipes latifasciatus.

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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 8 January, 2010 - 12:13pm
Last updated 8 January, 2010 - 5:22pm

Moved

Moved from Grasshoppers.

… Andrew Williams, 8 January, 2010 - 5:21pm

The appearance is similar

to Xanthippus, but you are correct, it is different, and this was probably only a bit over an inch long (probably about 2 inches for a female Xanthippus. It is indeed an ovipositing female, and it is Psoloessa delicatula. It's one of those ground-loving "Slant-face" Grasshoppers that doesn't have much of a slanted face.

… David J. Ferguson, 8 January, 2010 - 4:41pm

thought it looked different, another new one for me

Thanks David. I'd be lost on these hoppers without you.

… Andrew Williams, 8 January, 2010 - 5:22pm

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