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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 » Poecilotettix » Red-lined Grasshopper (Poecilotettix sanguineus)
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Many Hued Grasshopper - Poecilotettix sanguineus - female
Copyright © 2008 Michael J. Plagens

Many Hued Grasshopper - Poecilotettix sanguineus - Female
Camp Creek, New River Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
September 13, 2008
Size: > 3 cm
The host plant was Baccharis sergiloides. I thought it might be one of the Schistocerca, but I saw none with such a rainbow of color.

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Many Hued Grasshopper - Poecilotettix sanguineus - female Many Hued Grasshopper - Poecilotettix sanguineus - female
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Contributed by Michael J. Plagens on 22 September, 2008 - 6:07pm
Last updated 21 July, 2009 - 2:23pm

Moved
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 23 September, 2008 - 4:55am login or register to post comments

Poecilotettix sanguineus
I think this genus and Hesperotettix are very closely related. Probably close to Dactylotum too (notice that the arrangement of the color pattern is nearly exactly the same).

A very striking species, but for some reason very rarely seen.
… David J. Ferguson, 23 September, 2008 - 4:49am login or register to post comments

Hesperotettix sp.
I think this is a species of Hesperotettix. David Ferguson should be able to say for certain. What a beauty!
… Eric R. Eaton, 22 September, 2008 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

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