Dactylotum bicolor

Dactylotum bicolor
Dactylotum bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Acrididae
Genus: Dactylotum
Species: D. bicolor
Binomial name
Dactylotum bicolor
Charpentier, 1843

Dactylotum bicolor, known as the "barber-pole grasshopper" or the "rainbow grasshopper", lives from southern Saskatchewan south to Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, western and central Texas and into Mexico.

These brightly colored grasshoppers live along the western edge of the Great Plains. Adults are active from mid- to late summer in desert grasslands with gravelly, sparsely vegetated soils and occasionally in alfalfa fields. They feed on a wide variety of desert plants, especially grasses and low broad-leaf plants.


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