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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 » Flabellate Grasshopper (Melanoplus occidentalis)
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grasshopper - head with conspicuous yellow marks - Melanoplus occidentalis - male
Copyright © 2015 Richard Bunn

grasshopper - head with conspicuous yellow marks - Melanoplus occidentalis - Male
Elk Park, Pikes Peak (38.876961° -105.065541° E11855’), Teller County, Colorado, USA
July 13, 2015
Hindleg tibia inside and outside surfaces pale blue.

Habitat: alpine tundra at a site that is a mix of herbaceous perennials and exposed gravely soil and interspersed with large patches of perennial grass, at an elevation of 11,855'.

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grasshopper - head with conspicuous yellow marks - Melanoplus occidentalis - male grasshopper - head with conspicuous yellow marks - Melanoplus occidentalis - male
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Contributed by Richard Bunn on 16 July, 2015 - 2:08pm
Last updated 28 July, 2015 - 1:34pm

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Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids. Great images of this male.
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