Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Family Acrididae - Short-horned Grasshoppers


Orphulella speciosa
A detailed fact-sheet about Orphulella speciosa, which may be especially helpful for non-experts when distinguishing from other Orphulella species.

Schistocerca nitens

A Manual of the Grasshoppers of New Mexico

Brust M., Thurman J., Reuter C., Black L., Redford A.J. (2014) Grasshoppers of the Western U.S., Ed. 4
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Brust M., Thurman J., Reuter C., Black L., Redford A.J. (2014) Grasshoppers of the Western U.S., Ed. 4

Grasshopper Species Fact Sheets
contains relatively detailed factsheets about Wyoming grasshoppers. This may be the new link for all of the uwyo.edu links that don't work anymore.

Key to Tree Crickets encountered in the U.S.
This key can be used to identify tree crickets found in the U.S.

The Grasshoppers of Nebraska
In the format of a printed guide; published by the Nebraska Extension Service out of the University of Nebraska.

Has identification keys, photographs of pinned specimens, and distribution maps for most species in the state. It is a good reference for identifying Grasshoppers, useful in much of the northern and central Great Plains and regions immediately adjacent.