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Scudder's Short-winged Grasshopper
Melanoplus scudderi
33.976, -83.733
Field Notes
Description:
Brown grasshopper; approximately 1.5 inches long; upper hind legs don’t have bands on outer faces (as do many Melanoplus sp.) but have 2 dark spots on top. Tibae are reddish. Wings shorter than the pronatum; the oval forewings almost overlap on top. Dark stripe behind the eye.
Habitat:
Perched on mushroom (Russula sp.) in an open mixed hardwood/pine forest, on east-facing slope above a lake.
Found in late summer into early winter.
Notes:
Identification courtesy of Bug Guide: http://bugguide.net/node/view/1150984#2013374
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedOctober 7, 2015
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