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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
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Grasshopper - Melanoplus - female
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Grasshopper - Melanoplus - Female
kingsville, Texas, USA
June 22, 2014
Need help to identify it. Might be Metaleptea brevicornis.

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Grasshopper - Melanoplus - female Grasshopper - Melanoplus - female Grasshopper - Melanoplus - female
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Contributed by soni123 on 11 July, 2014 - 11:10am
Last updated 13 July, 2014 - 5:08pm

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… metrioptera, 13 July, 2014 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

female Melanoplus
are often hard to identify. This is almost certainly Melanoplus femurrubrum, though there is a chance it is M. sanguinipes or another. males have a wider, usually more rounded tip to the abdomen, and clear view that show the tip of the male abdomen are the easiest to identify in this genus. Some species look very distinct, but many are very similar looking.
… David J. Ferguson, 13 July, 2014 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

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Metaleptea look very different - here's one for comparison: . My guess is that this is a Melanoplus sp.
Also, this is a female.
… metrioptera, 11 July, 2014 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

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