Dusky Grasshopper (Encoptolophus sordidus) Burmeister, 1838

Range of the Dusky Grasshopper is from Alberta (Canada), Montana and Colorado to Manitoba (Canada), the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas (Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West).

The habitat of the Dusky Grasshopper includes weedy fields and heavily overgrown pastures, and old field and woods margins, rather than prairie or plains grasslands.

Also called Clouded Grasshopper.

Conservation Status

Vermont:
Global: G5

Phenology

The Dusky Grasshopper season is July – November.  Adults appear in late August. It tends to be common into Autumn, and to sometimes live even into early winter.

More Information

• iNaturalist Species Account
• Bug Guide Species Account
• Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Vermont Distribution

• Vermont Atlas of Life on iNaturalist

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