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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 » Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum)
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Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - male
Copyright © 2008 Ilona L.

Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - Male
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 5, 2008

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Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - male Grasshopper - Melanoplus femurrubrum - male
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 7 August, 2008 - 10:14am
Last updated 16 December, 2010 - 5:11pm

Moved
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… Ilona L., 8 August, 2008 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

Melanoplus femurrubrum
You've got a male last (5th) instar nymph. A very typical-looking one. You also captured all the details that make it moderately easy to identify this one (end of the abdomen from two angles, color pattern on inside of hind legs, etc.).
… David J. Ferguson, 8 August, 2008 - 5:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the ID. This gras
Thanks for the ID. This grasshopper was very cooperative. Not all of them are:)
… Ilona L., 8 August, 2008 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

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