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Species Psoloessa texana - Texas Spotted Range Grasshopper

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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 Gomphocerinae (Slant-faced Grasshoppers)
No Taxon (Aulocara Group)
Genus Psoloessa
Species texana (Texas Spotted Range Grasshopper)
Other Common Names
Texas Brown-spotted Grasshopper
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Psoloessa texana Scudder, 1875
Range
NE-CA and south into MX (1)
Habitat
Bare open ground with scanty vegetation; in AZ one of the most common and ubiquitous desert grasshoppers (1)
Internet References
OSF
Works Cited
1.The North American Grasshoppers, volume I, Acrididae, Gomphocerinae and Acridinae
Daniel Otte. 1981. Harvard.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 19 March, 2008 - 3:23pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, metrioptera
Last updated 19 April, 2019 - 9:12pm

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