Species
Dissosteira carolina (Carolina grasshopper)
Dissosteira carolina. Photo: (c) Liam Ragan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Dissosteira carolina, the Carolina grasshopper, Carolina locust, black-winged grasshooper, road-duster or quaker, a large band winged species of grasshopper which ranges widely in North America inhabiting weedy grasslands.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids)
- Suborder: Caelifera (Grasshoppers, locusts, and allies)
- Infraorder: Acrididea (Grasshoppers)
- Superfamily: Acridoidea (Short-horned grasshoppers and locusts)
- Family: Acrididae (Short-horned grasshoppers)
- Subfamily: Oedipodinae (Bandwing grasshoppers)
- Tribe: Trimerotropini
- Genus: Dissosteira
- Species: Dissosteira carolina (Carolina grasshopper)
- Genus: Dissosteira
- Tribe: Trimerotropini
- Subfamily: Oedipodinae (Bandwing grasshoppers)
- Family: Acrididae (Short-horned grasshoppers)
- Superfamily: Acridoidea (Short-horned grasshoppers and locusts)
- Infraorder: Acrididea (Grasshoppers)
- Suborder: Caelifera (Grasshoppers, locusts, and allies)
- Order: Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Sightings
