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title: "Pallid-winged Grasshopper"
description: "Trimerotropis pallidipennis — Insetti e ragni. The pallid-winged grasshopper (Trimerotropis pallidipennis) is a common grasshopper of the family Acrididae, native to the deserts of western North America along with South America, ranging from British Columbia to Argentina."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/pallid-winged-grasshopper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Pallid-winged Grasshopper

> Trimerotropis pallidipennis — Insetti e ragni. The pallid-winged grasshopper (Trimerotropis pallidipennis) is a common grasshopper of the family Acrididae, native to the deserts of western North America along with South America, ranging from British Columbia to Argentina.

- Scientific name: *Trimerotropis pallidipennis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `desert` (Deserto)
- iNaturalist observations: 30829
- Wikidata: [Q7127865](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7127865)
- iNaturalist taxon: [51493](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51493)

## Names

- en: Pallid-winged Grasshopper
- es: Chapulín de alas pálidas

## Countries with the most observations

US (16419), AR (666), MX (342), CA (205), BO (55), CL (13)

## Summary

The pallid-winged grasshopper (Trimerotropis pallidipennis) is a common grasshopper of the family Acrididae, native to the deserts of western North America along with South America, ranging from British Columbia to Argentina. They are more active during the summer months, and their pale, mottled coloration makes them hard to see against surfaces such as the granite often found in the gravel of dry river beds. They grow to be 37 millimetres (1.5 in). The behavior of the pallid-winged grasshopper is apparently determined by temperature, with foraging occurring at temperatures of 24–32 °C (75–90 °F) and mating at 30…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallid-winged_grasshopper

## Photo

![Pallid-winged Grasshopper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pallid-winged-grasshopper/medium.jpg)

Photo: William · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/246486301

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pallid-winged-grasshopper?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).