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Meadow Grasshopper

Pseudochorthippus parallelus

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 Alaska.January 4,279, February 3,161, March 4,952, April 7,791, May 11,233, June 12,249, July 13,107, August 11,272, September 8,276, October 6,177, November 3,376, December 2,638.
United States88,511
Alaska88,511
Germany3,583
United Kingdom3,508
England3,211
Austria2,718
France2,338
Steiermark1,072
Russia775
Niederösterreich749

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
GenusPseudochorthippus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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