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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Cyrtacanthacridinae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Schistocerca) » Gray Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca nitens)
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grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens - male
Copyright © 2017 dvoribird

grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens - Male
Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, Texas, USA
March 20, 2017

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grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens - male grasshopper - Schistocerca nitens - male
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Contributed by dvoribird on 15 April, 2017 - 8:26pm
Last updated 16 May, 2017 - 2:16pm

The plain coloring threw me a bit,
but he appears to be a male S. nitens. S. damnifica is in that area too, and can be colored very similarly to this (except for the pale area at the bottom sides of the pronotum). Usually has shorter wings and a slightly larger pronotum than this too.

Moved from Bird Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 16 May, 2017 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Thank you!
… dvoribird, 16 May, 2017 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

These two photos are of the same individual,
which is fine, it shows two somewhat different angles. So, I've linked them together.

The meta-data attached to the photos shows that they were taken 3 minutes apart on March 20. Were they taken at Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, Texas, which is the location you have for that date?
… David J. Ferguson, 16 May, 2017 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, correct.
Yes, correct.
… dvoribird, 16 May, 2017 - 5:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 15 April, 2017 - 10:40pm login or register to post comments

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