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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Band-winged Grasshoppers (Oedipodinae) » Trimerotropini » Dissosteira » Carolina Grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina)
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Carolina Grasshopper - Dissosteira carolina
Copyright © 2014 Dave Rogers

Carolina Grasshopper - Dissosteira carolina
Frank Shoemaker Marsh -- North side of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
July 4, 2014
Size: Approx 2 inches
Sitting on bare dirt road in the prairie. I'm thinking this is a late season Speckle-winged Grasshopper -- Arphia conspersa.
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Contributed by Dave Rogers on 5 July, 2014 - 9:54am
Last updated 4 October, 2016 - 3:42pm

It is actually a Carolina Grasshopper
Dissosteira carolina

There is some resemblance to an Arphia, but the body is longer and more slender (and the wings much longer). The cut in the ridge on the pronotum is at a diagonal instead of vertical (or missing). Also, when this one flew, you would have seen black wings intstead of orange or yellow.

It is indeed late for Arphia conspersa, but it's not impossible to see them this late (though it would be more likely in a cooler climate than Lincoln).

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 7 July, 2014 - 7:23am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
it's already gotten over 10,000 hits on flickr.
… Dave Rogers, 7 July, 2014 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
This reminds me of Dissosteira.
… metrioptera, 5 July, 2014 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

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