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Wrinkled Grasshopper

Hippiscus ocelote

4,076 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 146, February 140, March 159, April 302, May 185, June 90, July 142, August 226, September 179, October 105, November 137, December 133.
United States5,413
Texas1,660
Oklahoma683
Missouri286
Kansas251
Arkansas246
Tennessee239
Mississippi220
Virginia197
North Carolina183

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
GenusHippiscus

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