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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Band-winged Grasshoppers (Oedipodinae) » Trimerotropini » Dissosteira » Carolina Grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina)
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grasshopper - Dissosteira carolina
Copyright © 2014 Beth Stronach

grasshopper - Dissosteira carolina
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 9, 2014
Size: 2-3 in

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Contributed by Beth Stronach on 9 August, 2014 - 8:17pm
Last updated 9 August, 2014 - 9:49pm

looks like a teneral Dissosteira
Moved from ID Request.
… metrioptera, 9 August, 2014 - 9:49pm login or register to post comments

 
teneral
What does this term mean?
… Beth Stronach, 10 August, 2014 - 7:55pm login or register to post comments

 
teneral...
meaning an insect recently molted, so it's still soft until its exoskeleton hardens. This one looks like it just had its imaginal molt, which is the final molt to adulthood.
… metrioptera, 11 August, 2014 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

 
ok thx
In the lab, we call newly eclosed Drosophila, virgins!
But that's interesting because its wings looked fresh, soft and pale.
… Beth Stronach, 12 August, 2014 - 1:31pm login or register to post comments

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