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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) » Hesperotettix genus group » Hesperotettix » Hesperotettix viridis » Snakeweed Grasshopper (Hesperotettix viridis viridis)

Subspecies Hesperotettix viridis viridis - Snakeweed Grasshopper

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Habitat · Food · Life Cycle
Hesperotettix viridis? - Hesperotettix viridis - male - female grasshopper - Hesperotettix viridis Lovely! - Hesperotettix viridis - male Hesperotettix viridis viridis? - Hesperotettix viridis - female Hesperotettix? - Hesperotettix viridis - female Hesperotettix viridis viridis - Hesperotettix viridis - female Hesperotettix viridis viridis - Hesperotettix viridis - female Hesperotettix viridis viridis - Hesperotettix viridis - female
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 Melanoplinae (Spur-throated Grasshoppers)
No Taxon (Hesperotettix genus group)
Genus Hesperotettix
Species viridis (Hesperotettix viridis)
Subspecies viridis (Snakeweed Grasshopper)
Other Common Names
Green-streak Grasshopper
Purple-striped Grasshopper
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Caloptenus viridis Thomas 1872. Type locality: Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas
Hesperotettix viridis (Thomas) Scudder 1897
Hesperotettix meridionalis Scudder 1897. Type locality: Guanajuato, Mexico
Hesperotettix festivus Scudder 1897. Type locality: Salt Lake Valley, Utah [placed as synonym of H. viridis viridis by Hebard in 1935]
Range
Western United States (roughly including Great Plains and westward); adjacent south-central Canada (grassland regions); northern Mexico; but absent along Pacific coast.
Habitat
Most any open sunny area with Composite, usually shrubby, host plants (Asteraceae). Often abundant in marginally disturbed sites.
Food
various Asteraceae (mostly shrubby)
Life Cycle
See under species.
Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 10 August, 2008 - 12:30am
Last updated 18 August, 2017 - 1:01pm

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