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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 » Trimerotropis » Barren Land Grasshopper (Trimerotropis pistrinaria)
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Three-banded Grasshopper? - Trimerotropis pistrinaria - male
Copyright © 2014 Fieldbirder

Three-banded Grasshopper? - Trimerotropis pistrinaria - Male
Jumbo Reservoir, Logan County, Colorado, USA
August 31, 2014
Three-banded Grasshopper or something different? There were many of them.
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Contributed by Fieldbirder on 7 September, 2014 - 5:57pm
Last updated 14 September, 2014 - 10:24pm

this is Trimerotropis pistrinaria
The "Three-banded" is much larger and doesn't make noise when it flies the way this one can. T. pistrinaria is common on exposed gravelly areas on the Plains.

Sparagemon equale is perhaps S. pistrinaria's closest relative, and they are very similar. I suspect that the two even hybridize sometimes. T. pistrinaria is actually misplaced in Trimerotropis, and should be put in Sparagemon, but the change has never been officially made.

Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 14 September, 2014 - 10:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
This reminds me of Spharagemon equale humile, but wait for an expert.
… metrioptera, 7 September, 2014 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

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