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Crepitating Grasshopper

Spharagemon crepitans

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Georgia.January 4, February 5, March 4, April 6, May 5, June 3, July 3, August 2, September 3, October 4, November 3, December 3.
United States369
Georgia45
Alabama3
South Carolina1

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
GenusSpharagemon

Sources

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