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Grasshopper - Chortophaga viridifasciata - female

Grasshopper - Chortophaga viridifasciata - Female
New Market, Madison County, Alabama, USA
April 12, 2006

Moved

Moved
Moved from Chortophaga.

How many specimens?
It looks like you have several different individuals here, the color is different. If so, they shouldn't be linked as "same specimen". You could link them by using [thumb:#] where # is the image number, if you want.

 
they look the same
I'm not sure if they are all the same species but I just thought they look very much alike. They seem to be the same species just two different color patterns which are green and brown. They are absolutely everywhere in my yard.

 
Specimen vs. species
Yes, they are all the same species, several people said that already. The point is: are they the same individual or different ones? There may even be males and females lumped together as same specimen (or same individual), or two different species or subspecies, for instance one has rougher texture than the others.
Nice set of images, by the way.

 
use your common sense
I don't mean to be rude but it's obvious they are different specimens.

 
The point is that if they are different individuals
they shouldn't be linked. BugGuide reserves Link for multiple images of the same individual. We will unlink these, but first we will copy David's comment from the first image, so that the IDs make sense once they are unlinked.

Chortophaga viridifasciata
Yes this is the species. They vary in color. You've managed to get a brown male (first shot), a brown female (second shot), green males (third and fourth shots - rather rare). This is the brown female.
… David J. Ferguson, 19 May, 2008

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