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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Cyrtacanthacridinae) » Bird Grasshoppers (Schistocerca) » Spotted Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca lineata) » "venusta" type (Schistocerca lineata "venusta" type)
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Large green grasshopper - Schistocerca lineata - female
Copyright © 2014 Charlotte Clarke Geier

Large green grasshopper - Schistocerca lineata - Female
Dripping Springs near Las Cruces, New Mexico, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
June 1, 2010
I would like vto know what kind of grasshopper this is. I like to have the common name and scientific name.
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Contributed by Charlotte Clarke Geier on 22 March, 2014 - 10:12am
Last updated 6 April, 2014 - 5:37am

Moved
Moved from Bird Grasshoppers.
… David J. Ferguson, 6 April, 2014 - 5:37am login or register to post comments

a bird grasshopper, Schistocerca sp.
Moved from ID Request.
Looks like one of the "Alutacea group", which are hard to tell apart. I'd guess either S. lineata or S. obscura.
… metrioptera, 22 March, 2014 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

 
I.D. of large green grasshopper
Thank you for giving me a better idea of how to look at this large grasshopper! Here are the pair which I assme are a male and a female.

Mr. and Mrs. Grasshopper
… Charlotte Clarke Geier, 22 March, 2014 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

 
yes, it's a male and female pair
The males are usually easier to identify than the females, especially if you can see the tip of their abdomens, so it might be worth posting a close-up of him here.
… metrioptera, 22 March, 2014 - 11:02am login or register to post comments

 
male & female bird grasshoppers
Thank you. I assumed that to be the case because one is much smaller than the other and no more of their species were on that bush. I'm sorry, but I do not have another photo that would show the tip of the abdomens more clearly. These photos were taken in 2010 when I still lived in El Paso, TX. I'm a very long way from there now, so cannot hope to capture additional shots of these any time soon.
… Charlotte Clarke Geier, 22 March, 2014 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

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