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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 » Green-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus viridipes-species-group)
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Green-legged grasshopper - Melanoplus viridipes-species-group - male
Copyright © 2011 Roy Cohutta

Green-legged grasshopper - Melanoplus viridipes-species-group - Male
Bald Mountain (about 2500 - 3000 feet elevation), Murray County, Georgia, USA
June 3, 2010
Size: small, perhaps an inch
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Contributed by Roy Cohutta on 6 March, 2011 - 12:29pm
Last updated 1 December, 2020 - 11:31am

He definitely looks like he belongs to the
Melanoplus viridipes group

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 March, 2011 - 4:05am login or register to post comments

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