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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 » Pictured Spur-throat Grasshopper (Melanoplus pictus)
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Any guesses who's nymph this is? - Melanoplus pictus - male
Copyright © 2011 margarethe brummermann

Any guesses who's nymph this is? - Melanoplus pictus - Male
Marana, Santa Cruz River, Pima County, Arizona, USA
April 16, 2011
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 17 April, 2011 - 3:12pm
Last updated 12 May, 2011 - 8:05pm

Moved
Moved from Melanoplus.
… David J. Ferguson, 12 May, 2011 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… margarethe brummermann, 18 April, 2011 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

He's still a bit young to be able to tell for sure
by looking at his "male parts", but he looks like Melanoplus pictus to me. Definitely he's Melanoplus. M. pictus have a thing for Composites too (especially ones in the Aster Tribe), which is what this one is appears to be having for dinner.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 April, 2011 - 4:24pm login or register to post comments

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