species 4,100 observations

Rainbow Grasshopper

Dactylotum bicolor

Field notes

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.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided