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Hooded Grouse Locust

Paratettix cucullatus

750 observations in the source records

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What the records say

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 14, February 15, March 23, April 45, May 86, June 40, July 30, August 28, September 29, October 24, November 15, December 13.
United States2,554
Canada362
Ontario362
Texas344
Michigan221
Oklahoma210
Illinois191
Missouri172
New York151
Tennessee116

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
FamilyPygmy Grasshoppers · Tetrigidae
GenusParatettix

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