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Trimerotropis pallidipennis (pallid-winged grasshopper)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The pallid-winged grasshopper (Trimerotropis pallidipennis) is a common grasshopper of the family Acrididae, native to the deserts of western North America from British Columbia to Argentina. They are more active during the summer months, and their pale, mottled coloration makes them hard to see against surfaces such as the granite often found in the gravel of dry river beds. They grow to be 37 millimetres (1.5 in). The behavior of the pallid-winged grasshopper is apparently determined by temperature, with foraging occurring at temperatures of 24–32 °C (75–90 °F) and mating at 30–40 °C (86–104 °F).
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Chaetodipus penicillatus (desert pocket mouse)1
Chondestes grammacus (Lark Sparrow)1
Leprus intermedius (Saussure's Blue-Winged Grasshopper)1
Peromyscus truei (pinyon mouse)1
Syrbula montezuma (Montezuma's Grasshopper)1

Predators

Eudromia elegans (Elegant Crested Tinamou)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2Feeding patterns in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae): factors influencing diet specialization, Joern, A. 1979. Oecologia 38: 325-347
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0