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Quanah Grasshopper (Melanoplus tuberculatus)
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Copyright © 2007
Penny Crispin
Multi-colored grasshopper -
Melanoplus tuberculatus
Lake Corpus Christi, San Patricio County, Texas, USA
April 20, 2007
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Contributed by
Penny Crispin
on 1 May, 2007 - 7:49am
Last updated 7 November, 2012 - 2:16pm
This is still tentative, until we learn more about these nymphs,
but based on where taken,
M. tuberculatus
seems more likely. I suspect that
M. tuberculatus
and
M. lakinus
are probably very closely related to one another. This one is younger than all the other nymphs posted under this species so far.
Moved from
Lakin Grasshopper
.
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David J. Ferguson
, 7 November, 2012 - 2:17pm
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I'm going to leave this here for now
but I have a suspicion, based on location (may even be outside the range of
M. lakinus
??), and on slight differences in the pattern, that this may be another species. Perhaps it is
M. tuberculatus
or
M. plebejus
. There are a couple other nymphs posted here from Texas now that have a similar pattern, and are almost certainly not
M. lakinus
, but they aren't identified with certainty yet either.
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David J. Ferguson
, 27 October, 2011 - 10:29pm
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Moved
Moved from
Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets
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john and jane balaban
, 26 December, 2007 - 11:29am
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Nymph of Acrididae.
Unfortunately, there is no way to identify most grasshopper nymphs beyond about subfamily, and I don't even know THAT on this one:-)
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Eric R. Eaton
, 1 May, 2007 - 3:27pm
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Melanoplus lakinus probably
Hi, This is a distinctive color pattern that shows on early instar nymphs of
M. lakinus
. However, I don't know nymphs of various
Melanoplus
well enough to know if there might be a related species with the same pattern. So, I'm not positive, but am relatively sure that this is a second instar nymph of
M. lakinus
. It is definitely a
Melanoplus
.
Compare with this:
Pfadt Fact Sheet for M. lakinus
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David J. Ferguson
, 26 December, 2007 - 10:42am
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