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Pictured Grasshopper

Dactylotum bicolor

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Acrididae

Dactylotum bicolor, also known as the rainbow grasshopper, painted grasshopper, pictured grasshopper, or the barber pole grasshopper, is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is native to the United States, Canada and northern Mexico and exhibits aposematism (warning coloration). It was first described by the German entomologist Toussaint de Charpentier in 1843.

Distribution

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