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Red-winged Grasshopper

Arphia pseudonietana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) nebraska_fish, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

26 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 0, July 5, August 16, September 45, October 48, November 17, December 3.
Texas134
Arizona130
British Columbia117
New Mexico70
Colorado52
North Dakota35
Alberta34
Washington28
Oregon25
Oklahoma22

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyShort-horned Grasshoppers · Acrididae
GenusArphia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Red-winged Grasshopper with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.