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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus
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Acrididae - Melanoplus cinereus? - Melanoplus - male
Copyright © 2018 Tanner Carothers

Acrididae - Melanoplus cinereus? - Melanoplus - Male
Dugway Proving Ground, El Dorado Mine, Tooele County, Utah, USA
August 24, 2015
Size: Approximately 2 cm
Coll. Robert J. Delph
UV Light Trap 2100-0100

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Acrididae - Melanoplus cinereus? - Melanoplus - male Acrididae - Melanoplus cinereus? - Melanoplus - male
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Contributed by Tanner Carothers on 20 December, 2018 - 1:11pm
Last updated 21 December, 2018 - 8:50am

Likely correct
I'm not sure where M. cinereus and M. complanatipes displace each other (north of there I think???), and I'm not sure if one blends into the other. I can't see the entire cercus clearly enough to tell which type it is, nor other details of the male genitalia that might help. Anyway, it's going to be one of these two (or perhaps an intermediate). I couldn't locate any distribution data that was detailed enough for Utah to be of help.
… David J. Ferguson, 1 March, 2021 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
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