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Spined Grouse Locust

Tettigidea armata

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

24 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

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

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Michigan.January 3, February 4, March 6, April 12, May 24, June 9, July 7, August 6, September 7, October 6, November 4, December 3.
United States602
Canada92
Michigan92
Ontario92
Georgia84
Alabama69
Tennessee62
Kentucky12
Texas12
Oklahoma10

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
FamilyPygmy Grasshoppers · Tetrigidae
GenusTettigidea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Spined Grouse Locust with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.