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Scrub Pine Grasshopper

Dendrotettix australis

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Georgia.January 3, February 3, March 3, April 5, May 4, June 2, July 2, August 2, September 2, October 3, November 2, December 3.
United States54
Georgia34
Alabama10
Tennessee5
South Carolina5

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
GenusDendrotettix

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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