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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) » Dactylotini » Dactylotum » Rainbow Grasshopper (Dactylotum bicolor)
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Rainbow Grasshoppers - Dactylotum bicolor - male - female
Copyright © 2005 John Racette

Rainbow Grasshoppers - Dactylotum bicolor - Male Female
White's City, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
September 9, 2005
Size: 1" and 1.5" or so.
Rainbow Grasshoppers (Dactylotum bicolor, I think). Late afternoon, after a rainstorm. These little lovebugs posed for several minutes. This is the best of a half dozen shots.
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Contributed by John Racette on 13 September, 2005 - 5:51pm
Last updated 5 April, 2013 - 9:00am

Amazing colors!
Prompted me to do a little web searching. I see that only one Dactylotum is listed for New Mexico on this Grasshoppers of New Mexico website. A brief Google search turned up images of Dactylotum variegatum which looks similar to my untrained eye - I wonder how they would be told apart in states where they both occur - like Colorado?
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 13 September, 2005 - 8:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Synonyms
Grasshoppers of New Mexico site says D. variegatum (Scudder), and D. pictum are synonyms.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 14 September, 2005 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Patrick!
I had wondered if that was the case, but didn't notice that info on the website. Always in too much of a hurry, I think. D'oh!
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 14 September, 2005 - 2:29pm login or register to post comments

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