''Hesperotettix viridis'', known generally as the snakeweed grasshopper or meadow purple-striped grasshopper, is a species of
spur-throated grasshopper in the family
Acrididae
The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 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 bec ...
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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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Melanoplinae
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