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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)
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Perhaps Mantis religious, would like confermation/correction
Copyright © 2021 Kent Kobersteen

Perhaps Mantis religious, would like confermation/correction
Huntley Meadows Park, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
August 19, 2021
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Contributed by Kent Kobersteen on 20 August, 2021 - 3:59pm
Last updated 21 August, 2021 - 10:59am

Moved
Could be a Paroxya or Melanoplus. Not really possible to tell from this photo. Rather aesthetic, though :)

Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 21 August, 2021 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the possible ID, a
Thanks for the possible ID, and for the compliments on the photograph. It's obvious I'm into photography more than little critters.
… Kent Kobersteen, 21 August, 2021 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

Grasshopper in the genus Mela
Grasshopper in the genus Melanoplus, I can't tell much else without a view of the body.
… Hexapoda, 20 August, 2021 - 4:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks much. I’m astonished
Thanks much. I’m astonished to get this much information.
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