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TRIMEROTROPIS
PALLIDIPENNIS

PALLID-WINGED GRASSHOPPER EMBEDDED IN CLEAR RESIN.

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KINGDOM : Animalia

PHYLUM : Arthropoda

SUBPHYLUM : Hexapoda

CLASS : Insecta

ORDER : Orthoptera

SUBORDER : Caelifera

FAMILY : Acrididae

SUBFAMILY : Oedipodinae

TRIBE : Trimerotropini

GENUS : Trimerotropis

SPECIES : T. Pallidipennis

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TRIMEROTROPIS
PALLIDIPENNIS

PALLID-WINGED GRASSHOPPER

The pallidwinged grasshopper, Trimerotropis pallidipennis, ranges from southwestern Canada to Argentina, making it the most widely distributed bandwinged grasshopper in the New World.

Males perform crepitation flights consisting of a series of bursts, each composed of 3-6 snaps. Females do not crepitate. When flushed, they fly swiftly, about 2-3 feet above the ground, often flying up 100 feet to beyond sight. During courtship, males stridulate, producing a trilling sound; produced by 2-14 strokes with a single femur. Femur-tipping and shaking are used during courtship and male-to-male aggression encounters, often accompanied by striking the ground with the hind tibia.

Crepitation is the sound produced by grasshoppers making a clicking or snapping noise with their wings when in flight, during courtship, territorial encounters or being disturbed.

Stridulation is rubbing one body part against another, usually the hind femur against the forewing in the case of the Band-winged Grasshoppers. This is often used for attracting a female during courtship

The general body color is tan or gray, the side of the face is often lighter below the eyes. The tegmina (forewing) has two distinct dark bands across its entire width, with dark spotting at the apex. The median carina (ridge) of the pronotum (thorax) has two sulci (grooves) with lobes anteriorly and low but distinct posteriorly. The hindwing disk varies from whitish to pale yellow with a thin black band, extending along the posterior border, and a thick spur extending about half-way to the base. The apex is translucent. The inner face of the hind femur is pale yellow, with a black medial area, black ring, and knee. The hind tibia is yellow.

Populations of the pallid-winged grasshopper occasionally irrupt to damaging numbers. Between 1952 and 1980, there were six outbreaks in Arizona, only one of which lasted more than one year.

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