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Hadrotettix trifasciatus
This is short-horned, band-winged grasshopper. There are three distinct horizontal dark bands. The tibia and tarsus are red. This grasshopper was injured, but still able to crawl and expose the red legs.
This was in section 39 of the LBJ Grasslands. It was a dry prairie area or mesa. The soil had ocean fossils showing. Parts of this area of Texas have Crustaceous era ocean bottom exposed.
Lyndon B. Johnson Grasslands is 20,313 acres located in north-central Texas. Before the federal government purchased them back in the late 1930s, the grasslands were mostly abandoned farms and ranches suffering from severe soil errosion from poor agricultural practices.
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