Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

Celebrating the surprising biodiversity of a county sometimes relegated to being thought of as just cornfields! Will be adding to this incrementally with confirmed observations of all forms of life in Lee County, using sources such as INHS, several guides, natural area catalogs, and of course ...more ↓

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Taxonomy
« Back To Winged and Once-winged Insects Subclass Pterygota
- Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids Order Orthoptera
  - 15 Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Allies Suborder Caelifera
  - 1 Katydids, Crickets, and Allies Suborder Ensifera

Black-horned Tree Cricket ¹
Oecanthus nigricornis

Sulphur-winged Grasshopper ²
Arphia sulphurea

Orange-Winged Grasshopper ³
Pardalophora phoenicoptera

Mottled Sand Grasshopper ⁴
Spharagemon collare

Carolina Grasshopper ⁵
Dissosteira carolina

Admirable Grasshopper ⁶
Syrbula admirabilis

Velvet-striped Grasshopper ⁷
Eritettix simplex

Short-winged Green Grasshopper ⁸
Dichromorpha viridis

Narrow-winged Spur-throat Grasshopper ⁹
Melanoplus angustipennis

Two-striped Grasshopper
Melanoplus bivittatus

Differential Grasshopper ⁶
Melanoplus differentialis

Red-legged Grasshopper ¹⁰
Melanoplus femurrubrum

Grizzly Spur-throat Grasshopper ¹¹
Melanoplus punctulatus

Migratory Grasshopper ¹²
Melanoplus sanguinipes

Schistocerca lineata ⁸
Schistocerca lineata

Clipped-winged Grasshopper ¹³
Metaleptea brevicornis

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Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

Black-horned Tree Cricket 1 Oecanthus nigricornis

Sulphur-winged Grasshopper 2 Arphia sulphurea

Orange-Winged Grasshopper 3 Pardalophora phoenicoptera

Mottled Sand Grasshopper 4 Spharagemon collare

Carolina Grasshopper 5 Dissosteira carolina

Admirable Grasshopper 6 Syrbula admirabilis

Velvet-striped Grasshopper 7 Eritettix simplex

Short-winged Green Grasshopper 8 Dichromorpha viridis

Narrow-winged Spur-throat Grasshopper 9 Melanoplus angustipennis

Two-striped Grasshopper Melanoplus bivittatus

Differential Grasshopper 6 Melanoplus differentialis

Red-legged Grasshopper 10 Melanoplus femurrubrum

Grizzly Spur-throat Grasshopper 11 Melanoplus punctulatus

Migratory Grasshopper 12 Melanoplus sanguinipes

Schistocerca lineata 8 Schistocerca lineata

Clipped-winged Grasshopper 13 Metaleptea brevicornis