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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Cyrtacanthacridinae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Schistocerca) » Gray Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca nitens)
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White Grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens - female
Copyright © 2010 S Paris

White Grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens - Female
Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California, USA
August 9, 2010
Size: 3 inches
My daughter found this white grasshopper on the same plant where she found a pink mantis. It seems thicker than most of the grasshoppers we get around here. I was wondering what species it is.
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Contributed by S Paris on 10 August, 2010 - 12:03am
Last updated 11 September, 2010 - 12:11am

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… David J. Ferguson, 11 September, 2010 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 10 September, 2010 - 8:27am login or register to post comments

Not 100%, but
I would lean toward Gray Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca nitens). This is a nymph, probably last instar. It is possibly very recently molted, which would be the cause of the white coloration. It's color may darken to a tanish brown or green, or any other color in the rainbow given that grasshoppers have amazing variability in nymphal coloration (that's a little exaggerated, but just a little). Then again, it may remain white in color until adulthood, when it will be gray/brown.
… Chad Lensbower, 10 August, 2010 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Very cool.
… S Paris, 13 August, 2010 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

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