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Sandhills Band-wing Grasshopper

Xanthippus montanus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) egordon88, some rights reserved (CC BY)

25 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 Nebraska.January 2, February 3, March 6, April 8, May 16, June 8, July 6, August 6, September 5, October 4, November 3, December 2.
United States303
Nebraska68
Colorado59
New Mexico43
Texas27
Oklahoma23
Arizona22
Utah14
South Dakota13
Kansas10

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

Remember the name next time.

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