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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Lubber Grasshoppers (Romaleidae) » Lubber Grasshoppers (Romalea) » Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea microptera)
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Huge Grasshopper/ Locust - Romalea microptera - female
Copyright © 2010 Kelly Hartman

Huge Grasshopper/ Locust - Romalea microptera - Female
Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA
June 27, 2010

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Huge Grasshopper/ Locust - Romalea microptera - female Huge Grasshopper/ Locust - Romalea microptera - female
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Contributed by Kelly Hartman on 27 June, 2010 - 1:39pm
Last updated 18 October, 2010 - 10:20pm

Gorgeously colored! I love t
Gorgeously colored! I love the red gradient on its wings.
… Tiffany Peters, 27 June, 2010 - 10:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John R. Maxwell, 27 June, 2010 - 6:59pm login or register to post comments

Eastern Lubber
Eastern Lubber - Romalea microptera. Classically, the multicolored lubbers were differentiated as Southeastern Lubbers - Romalea guttata, as they were thought separate species from the black lubbers.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 27 June, 2010 - 2:03pm login or register to post comments

Lubber grasshopper (Romaleidae)
is my guess, although somebody else will have to ID the species.

That's a beautifully marked specimen, whatever it is.
… Brian Peterson, 27 June, 2010 - 1:58pm login or register to post comments

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