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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 » from Georgia & Carolina (Melanoplus unknown-species)
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Grasshopper - Melanoplus unknown-species - male
Copyright © 2011 Tim Rose

Grasshopper - Melanoplus unknown-species - Male
Stockbridge, Rockdale County, Georgia, USA
September 18, 2011
Size: approx. 2"
Photographed under a shelter at bird banding station in large open area of grasses, sedges and wildflowers at Panola Mountain Conservation Park.

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Grasshopper - Melanoplus unknown-species - male Grasshopper - Melanoplus unknown-species - male Grasshopper - Melanoplus unknown-species - male
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Contributed by Tim Rose on 1 October, 2011 - 6:35pm
Last updated 2 October, 2011 - 5:49pm

This is a species of Melanoplus.
He is related to Melanoplus differentialis, but that is not what he is. I'm going to keep looking for a name for these, but this may prove to be an unnamed species. I thought the female that was posted last year was perhaps a hybrid, but two that look this much alike makes me think that maybe this is something worth looking at more closely. Now that there is a male, I'll have a little more to work with. Do you have any other photos, perhaps one from the side, or (hopefully) one showing the end of the abdomen??? There are some candidates M. clypeatus is one) that shouldn't be found so far inland (as far as I know), but perhaps they are anyway. I got'a look up the descriptions now.

Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 2 October, 2011 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Melanoplus grasshopper
I have two more shots of the same individual but no good lateral or posterior shots. I'll send them anyway in case they help.

I have three shots of another individual that are similar in pattern to this, but color tends more toward green-blue (with good posterior shots), and another individual that tends more toward bright green-yellow. Let me know if you would like to see them too for comparison.

Thanks.
… Tim Rose, 2 October, 2011 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

 
I think that posting them would be good
Lots of species vary in color, and if they are the same one as this, they may be very helpful in nailing this creature down. If nothing else, they sound rather attractive.
… David J. Ferguson, 3 October, 2011 - 9:23am login or register to post comments

 
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