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Fontana Grasshopper - Trimerotropis fontana - female

Fontana Grasshopper - Trimerotropis fontana - Female
Top of West Camino Cielo Rd, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
July 3, 2010
Size: ~3cm
From high elevation (~4,000ft) mixed oak and scrub community

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Fontana Grasshopper - Trimerotropis fontana - female Fontana Grasshopper - Trimerotropis fontana - female Fontana Grasshopper - Trimerotropis fontana - female Fontana Grasshopper - Trimerotropis fontana - female

Flop-flop in oppinion.
I've been able to refresh my memory of T. occidentalis by looking several hundred in the field this summer. Also, this seems to jive well with all those other postings of the T. fontana / koebelei type that you've posted.

Moved from Trimerotropis.

These are definitely frustrating
Anyway, I think you've perhaps got your first T. occidentalis with these. The greenish to bluish wings, the relatively faint dark band on the wings (subtle I know), etc. all could fit this species. I have to admit though, that the blue-legged things in southern California are very confusing.

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