The Showy grasshopper (Hesperotettix speciosus) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

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*Hesperotettix speciosus*
Hesperotettix speciosus
Other common names
	White whiskers grasshopper, western grassgreen grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Melanoplinae
Tribe:	Melanoplini
Genus:	Hesperotettix
Scientific name
	Hesperotettix speciosus (Scudder, 1872)
Geography
Native countries:
	United States;

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

Charles Hart — 2 specimens collected
Anne Lewis — 1 specimen collected
James Erdmann — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

Tyler Grant — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

Biota Information System of New MexicoBOLD SystemsBugGuideCatalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistIRMNGITIS TSNMontana Field GuideNatureServe ExplorerNCBI taxonomyOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)UMLS CUIXeno-canto