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Yellow grasshopper with red tibia (2) - Melanoplus angustipennis
Copyright © 2016 Bob Webster

Yellow grasshopper with red tibia (2) - Melanoplus angustipennis
Baca County, Colorado, USA
July 27, 2016
Melanoplus? packardii?
Contributed by Bob Webster on 17 August, 2016 - 7:49pm
Last updated 19 September, 2017 - 1:22am

looks like M. angustipennis
Very similar to M. foedus (and M. packardi), but smaller.

Moved from Spur-throated Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 19 September, 2017 - 1:22am

Moved
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… metrioptera, 17 August, 2016 - 9:06pm

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