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Trachyrhachys kiowa
Kiowa grasshopper, ash-brown grasshopper
Trachyrhachys kiowa is a medium-sized band-winged grasshopper inhabiting shortgrass and mixedgrass prairies of western North America. It feeds almost exclusively on grasses and sedges, particularly blue grama, and can become an economically damaging component of outbreak populations. The species is known for its dispersive behavior and intermediate hatching phenology, emerging two to three weeks after early-hatching species like the bigheaded grasshopper.