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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 » Pine Tree Spur-throat Grasshopper (Melanoplus punctulatus)
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Cricket - Melanoplus punctulatus - male
Copyright © 2009 Kurt Andreas

Cricket - Melanoplus punctulatus - Male
New Paltz, New York, USA
July 25, 2009
Size: around 1/2"

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Cricket - Melanoplus punctulatus - male Cricket - Melanoplus punctulatus - male
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Contributed by Kurt Andreas on 10 August, 2009 - 7:42am
Last updated 28 August, 2009 - 8:55pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 28 August, 2009 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

probably
Melanoplus punctulatus, last instar. Do you have any other photos? This looks like a male, and at this age, if you have one that shows the end of the abdomen, it would be easy to be certain. Even so, I'm fairly sure.
… David J. Ferguson, 10 August, 2009 - 10:44pm login or register to post comments

Not cricket
This is the nymph of a grasshopper in the Acrididae family, perhaps the genus Melanoplus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 August, 2009 - 8:15am login or register to post comments

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