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Schistocerca Rubiginosa color form 1 - Schistocerca rubiginosa - female
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Schistocerca Rubiginosa color form 1 - Schistocerca rubiginosa - Female
South Carolina, USA
This is the color form of Rubiginosa most likely to throw people off due to its coloration and that its range overlaps with lookalike species and similar color forms of its Schistocerca brethren. Unlike Schistocerca Damnifica: it lives in sandy areas, is larger, often has different color variants, has very dark-colored eyes, and has a more prominent stripe on its head(not always the same color either) or none at all, and has much better flying abilities than its smaller sibling. Not bred in captivity.
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Contributed by BirdwingFan on 26 September, 2006 - 6:27pm

Schistocerca damnifica
This actually looks like S. damnifica to me. The shape of the pronotum and the coloration match with that species. The photo is not clear enough to be certain though.

I notice, when I look at photos on various web sites on the internet, that there is a great deal of confusion between all of the species in the S. alutacea group (of which this is a member and which also includes alutacea, lineata, albolineata, shoshone, obscura, rubiginosa, etc.). Many of the photos published on the internet are misidentified, so they need to be taken with a "grain of salt".
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