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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 » Dallas Short-wing Grasshopper (Melanoplus flabellatus)
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Short winged Melanoplus - Melanoplus flabellatus - male
Copyright © 2009 Paul Lenhart

Short winged Melanoplus - Melanoplus flabellatus - Male
Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, Mullens tract, Burnet County, Texas, USA
June 17, 2009
There are a couple similar Texas and Arkansas unidentified Melanoplus grasshoppers. These guys are uncommon in the fields at this refuge. There is also another short winged Melanoplus species at this site with red tibia and a black band on the sides of the pronotum that does not continue into the metazona. They have similar shaped cerci.

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Contributed by Paul Lenhart on 24 June, 2009 - 1:50pm
Last updated 15 November, 2009 - 5:24am

This seems to be the only species
that fits; the original description is very close.

Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 15 November, 2009 - 5:24am login or register to post comments

Well, we have two the same for sure now
Just have to figure out which species. I'll stumble on the right name sometime (or somebody else will).

This fellow is the same species:
… David J. Ferguson, 13 September, 2009 - 10:27pm login or register to post comments

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