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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 » Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis)
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Boopedon gracile - Melanoplus differentialis - male
Copyright © 2021 Rachel Hopper

Boopedon gracile - Melanoplus differentialis - Male
Wellington, Larimer County, Colorado, USA
August 28, 2021
I do not know if this grasshopper has ever been recorded in Colorado before.
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Contributed by Rachel Hopper on 28 August, 2021 - 9:29pm
Last updated 30 August, 2021 - 7:53am

Moved
Neat! This color form seems to mostly pop up in CO

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… metrioptera, 29 August, 2021 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

Looks like the rather uncommo
Looks like the rather uncommon black and gold form of Melanoplus differentialis,
… Hexapoda, 28 August, 2021 - 11:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Melanoplus differentialis
Thanks! I agree.
… Rachel Hopper, 29 August, 2021 - 6:51am login or register to post comments

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