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Brown and black grasshopper with blue tibia - Aulocara elliotti - female
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Brown and black grasshopper with blue tibia - Aulocara elliotti - Female
Las Animas County, Colorado, USA
June 23, 2015
Contributed by Bob Webster on 17 August, 2016 - 8:05pm

appears to be a female Aulocara elliotti
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… metrioptera, 17 August, 2016 - 9:04pm

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