''Hesperotettix viridis'', known generally as the snakeweed grasshopper or meadow purple-striped grasshopper, is a species of
spur-throated grasshopper in the family
Acrididae
Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedi ...
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It is found in North America.
Subspecies
* ''Hesperotettix viridis brevipennis''
(Thomas, 1874)
* ''Hesperotettix viridis nevadensis'' (short-winged snakeweed grasshopper)
* ''Hesperotettix viridis pratensis''
Scudder, 1897 (purple-striped grasshopper)
* ''Hesperotettix viridis viridis''
(Thomas, 1872) (snakeweed grasshopper)
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Further reading
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Melanoplinae
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