Natural-hybridization

Guides

• Trimerotropis cyaneipennis

  blue-winged grasshopper, blue crackler

  Trimerotropis cyaneipennis is a band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae, commonly known as the blue-winged grasshopper or blue crackler. It is native to western North America, with a distribution spanning from West Texas through New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada to southern Oregon and southern California. The species is known to hybridize naturally with T. suffusa in zones of microsympatry, where their distributions and habitats overlap.

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