Insects › Short-horned Grasshoppers
Gray Bird Grasshopper
Schistocerca nitens
28 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.
Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.
Easily confused with
Green Bird GrasshopperSchistocerca shoshone
Egyptian Bird GrasshopperAnacridium aegyptium
Pallid-winged GrasshopperTrimerotropis pallidipennis
American Bird GrasshopperSchistocerca americana
Differential GrasshopperMelanoplus differentialis
Spotted Bird GrasshopperSchistocerca lineata
Obscure Bird GrasshopperSchistocerca obscura
Giant GrasshopperValanga irregularis
Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 28,894 |
|---|---|
| California | 21,504 |
| Arizona | 3,562 |
| Texas | 2,948 |
| Mexico | 2,177 |
| Nevada | 484 |
| Hawaii | 410 |
| New Mexico | 330 |
| Nuevo Leon | 255 |
| Chihuahua | 254 |
Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.
Traits
Physical
- ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification
Classification
| Kingdom | Animals · Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropods · Arthropoda |
| Class | Insects · Insecta |
| Order | Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera |
| Family | Short-horned Grasshoppers · Acrididae |
| Genus | Bird Grasshoppers · Schistocerca |
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise Gray Bird Grasshopper with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.