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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum)
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Cudweed Grasshopper (Hypochlora alba) - Melanoplus femurrubrum - female
Copyright © 2011 Dixie R. Smith

Cudweed Grasshopper (Hypochlora alba) - Melanoplus femurrubrum - Female
Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
August 1, 2011
Size: ca 2 cm
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Contributed by Dixie R. Smith on 1 August, 2011 - 1:38pm
Last updated 18 February, 2013 - 5:42pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Melanoplus Nymphs.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 February, 2013 - 5:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 September, 2011 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 August, 2011 - 4:41pm login or register to post comments

Do you have any other photos
Looks like it might be a male? (though probably female), and seeing the end of the abdomen of one this nearly mature (even though still a nymph) might make the ID more certain. Anyway, this is a nearly mature nymph of something in genus Melanoplus. It is probably a 'Red-legged Grasshopper' - Melanoplus femurrubrum, but there are several species of long-winged Melanoplus in Fort Collins, and there is a chance it is another. How can I tell it's long-winged? - because the wing pads are quite large.
… David J. Ferguson, 9 August, 2011 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

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… John R. Maxwell, 2 August, 2011 - 11:35pm login or register to post comments

Feeding habits
Captured while feeding on Penstemon sp.
… Dixie R. Smith, 2 August, 2011 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

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