grasshopper - Dissosteira pictipennis

Moved

Moved from Band-winged Grasshoppers.

… Joyce Gross, 5 October, 2016 - 10:00pm

This is another Dissosteira pictipennis

… Alice Abela, 5 October, 2016 - 9:38pm

thanks Alice!

Grasshoppers have a confusing (to me) amount of variation.

… Joyce Gross, 5 October, 2016 - 10:02pm

Me too!

I've been looking at them for awhile now, but regularly find myself quite confused! D. pictipennis has quite a bit of variation in terms of body color, but the rose/pink color to the wing is distinctive as well as the relatively high once cut pronotal crest. A. ramona will have bright orange wings (not red/pink) and a lower once cut pronotal crest.

… Alice Abela, 5 October, 2016 - 10:13pm

differences

Thanks for those details in the differences. Very helpful. Somehow I didn't even notice the differences in hind wing color -- I'm not good with colors. I see even their common names point out those color differences. :)
Now if I can just remember all this next time I catch a grasshopper...

… Joyce Gross, 6 October, 2016 - 12:03pm