Western Sagebrush Grasshopper? - Melanoplus complanatipes

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Copyright © 2011 Alice Abela

Western Sagebrush Grasshopper? - Melanoplus complanatipes -

Anza Borrego State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
August 28, 2011
Size: ~3cm

Found in rocky wash with sugar bush and desert willow

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Western Sagebrush Grasshopper? - Melanoplus complanatipes - male

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Contributed by Alice Abela on 31 August, 2011 - 10:57pm
Last updated 1 September, 2011 - 3:34pm

I think you are correct

I find the distinction between M. cinereus and M. complanatipes rather unconvincing, and suspect they run one into the other where they meet, but this seems to fit M. complanatipes better, and I think that is the one that is supposed be on the desert side of the mountains.

Moved from Grasshoppers.

… David J. Ferguson, 1 September, 2011 - 3:34pm

M. cinereus and M. complanatipes

Thanks for the confirmation! My knee jerk reaction when I found him was that he was something I hadn't seen before, because the long narrow wings gave him a really different look. Then once I started trying to figure him out in terms of his male parts, I realized he looked a lot like M. cinereus this eventually led me to M. complanatipes, but I had myself talked into a funny M. cinereus for awhile.

… Alice Abela, 1 September, 2011 - 3:49pm

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