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Species Trimerotropis titusi - Titus' Grasshopper

Trimerotropis titusi - female Trimerotropis titusi - female Trimerotropis titusi - female Trimerotropis titusi - male Trimerotropis titusi - male Trimerotropis titusi - male Trimerotropis titusi - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Oedipodinae (Band-winged Grasshoppers)
Tribe Trimerotropini
Genus Trimerotropis
Species titusi (Titus' Grasshopper)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trimerotropis titusi Caudell 1905. Type locality: Spreckles, Monterey County, California
Identification
Pale coloring; reduced dark cross band of hind wings; yellow hind tibiae; pronotum with tooth at lower hind angle of sides.
Closely related to T. californica and T. pacifica. Distinction as a species separate from T. pacifica is dubious, that species differing in more strongly developed dark patterning, and with stronger cross band on hind wing. Both differ from T. californica in having yellow instead of red hind tibia, and they may all represent variation within one species.
T. topanga, from further south, is somewhat similar with better developed and darker patterning and blue hind tibia, but only sometimes with similar tooth on lateral lobes of pronotum.
Range
Endemic to California; known from Santa Barbara to Monterey Counties.