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Marbled Grasshopper

Spharagemon marmoratum

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 11, February 11, March 18, April 35, May 68, June 32, July 24, August 24, September 23, October 19, November 12, December 10.
United States1,672
Canada371
Ontario286
Michigan132
Alabama119
Georgia116
Wisconsin85
South Carolina73
New Jersey49
North Carolina45

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

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