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Red-shanked Grasshopper

Xanthippus corallipes

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Colorado.January 137, February 107, March 147, April 289, May 438, June 263, July 247, August 210, September 194, October 140, November 122, December 116.
United States5,390
Colorado2,411
Arizona627
Utah491
Texas478
New Mexico385
California216
Nevada197
Oklahoma186
Canada184

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
GenusXanthippus

Sources

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