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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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Immature grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - male
Copyright © 2011 Beatriz Moisset

Immature grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - Male
Fulton County, New York, USA
July 23, 2004
It has a strong pattern
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Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 24 December, 2011 - 1:02pm
Last updated 6 January, 2019 - 6:43pm

If he had shed his skin one more time,
I could be positive from the shape of the end of his abdomen, but at this age it's not quite fully developed yet. Even so, I'm pretty sure.

Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 28 December, 2011 - 11:53am login or register to post comments

young male Spur-throat Grasshopper
hard to be 100% certain of which species, but he's almost certainly a Red-legged Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum.
… David J. Ferguson, 25 December, 2011 - 5:22am login or register to post comments

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