Carnegi Short-wing Grasshopper - Melanoplus carnegiei

I think this is a female Melanoplus carnegiei

I'm not sure if it's been recorded from Virginia, but I think it has been found as close as Mt. Airy, North Carolina. The distinction from M. scudderi seems small.

Moved from Unidentified Eastern Short-winged Melanoplus.

… David J. Ferguson, 21 January, 2013 - 9:36pm

After all this time I just realized that I wrote "female"

by mistake. This is clearly a male.

Sorry about that.

… David J. Ferguson, 10 November, 2014 - 8:44pm

Thanks,

David, I appreciate that correction!

… Nancy Kent, 10 November, 2014 - 9:32pm

Thanks,

David, I appreciate your sharing your thoughts on that Id.
BTW, do you have any other ideas about those tiny black grasshoppers?

… Nancy Kent, 22 January, 2013 - 6:36am

Several times thought the little blackish ones

(I think I know which ones you mean) were probably M. punctulatus, but I'm just not sure, and can't figure out a way to be sure - so far. Could be more than one species, but ??? If somebody raised some of them to adulthood (or at least closer) it would help.

… David J. Ferguson, 22 January, 2013 - 10:50am

Yes, thanks,

David, you had said that my black nymph Photo #638998 might be M. punctulatus. I had been wondering whether you had made any decision about them. They are so tiny and so unlike anything I had seen before.

… Nancy Kent, 22 January, 2013 - 7:41pm

… David J. Ferguson, 25 November, 2010 - 1:41pm

Moved

Moved from Melanoplus.

… David J. Ferguson, 25 November, 2010 - 1:06pm

It is an adult short winged species of Spur-throat Grasshopper

in the genus Melanoplus. It is perhaps M. scudderi, but I'm not sure. If you have another photo that shows the rear end of the abdomen more clearly (the leg is in the way in this one), it will be easier to tell which species. I may be able to figure it out without, but no guarantees.

Moved from ID Request.

… David J. Ferguson, 24 November, 2010 - 11:38pm

Thanks...

Thanks, David, for the ID so far. I've posted another two images, but I think that leg is still in the way. I will also make a new post of another individual from the same area. I took pics of three grasshoppers that appeared to me to all be the same species but then I just a beginner with those critters! These were the sharpest images.
Happy Thanksgiving!

… Nancy Kent, 25 November, 2010 - 10:23am