Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper

Arphia conspersa · Order: Orthoptera · Family: Acrididae

Also called: Orange-winged Grasshopper

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper
Photo: Owen Strickland, CC BY

The speckle-winged rangeland grasshopper is a band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Arphia conspersa is a species of band-winged grasshopper known as the speckle-winged rangeland grasshopper.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

This grasshopper is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 30 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Texas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper photo 3
Photo: Doug Macaulay, CC BY
Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper photo 4
Photo: Catherine C. Galley, CC BY
Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper photo 5
Photo: unknown, CC0
Speckle-winged Rangeland Grasshopper photo 6
Photo: Catherine C. Galley, CC BY

Same family (Acrididae)

Differential GrasshopperDifferential GrasshopperMelanoplus differentialisDamages trees, gardens or cropsTwo-striped GrasshopperTwo-striped GrasshopperMelanoplus bivittatusDamages trees, gardens or cropsCarolina GrasshopperCarolina GrasshopperDissosteira carolinaDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Field GrasshopperCommon Field GrasshopperChorthippus brunneusEgyptian Bird GrasshopperEgyptian Bird GrasshopperAnacridium aegyptiumGray Bird GrasshopperGray Bird GrasshopperSchistocerca nitensDamages trees, gardens or crops

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arphia_conspersa

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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