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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Slant-faced Grasshoppers (Gomphocerinae) » Aulocara Group » Horesidotes » Ash-gray Range Grasshopper (Horesidotes cinereus)
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Grasshopper - Horesidotes cinereus - female
Copyright © 2011 margarethe brummermann

Grasshopper - Horesidotes cinereus - Female
Picture Rocks, NW of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
August 6, 2011
Size: 23 mm

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Grasshopper - Horesidotes cinereus - female Grasshopper - Horesidotes cinereus - female
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 7 August, 2011 - 12:15am
Last updated 23 February, 2021 - 6:07pm

Moved
Moved from Short-horned Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 23 February, 2021 - 6:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ash-gray Range Grasshopper.
… margarethe brummermann, 19 June, 2020 - 6:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Why moved?
?
… David J. Ferguson, 28 August, 2020 - 1:43pm login or register to post comments

It would appear
that I let this one fake me out too. Some clues that I missed: thicker hind femora; white lines on top of pronotum more strongly converging in the middle (the margins don't seem to do this though when the white lines are missing); thicker antennae; fastigium of top of head narrower with "lateral faveolae" to either side more clearly visible from the upper side.

Also, this male:
… David J. Ferguson, 3 December, 2013 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spotted-winged Grasshopper.
… David J. Ferguson, 3 December, 2013 - 12:15am login or register to post comments

a female Spot-winged Grasshopper
Orphulella pelidna. It's another species for which the common name often doesn't fit very well.

Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 9 August, 2011 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

 
I would have named her
for her creamy forehead
… margarethe brummermann, 9 August, 2011 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

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