I found the old documents I was looking for and they are not relevant. So, I went back to your spotting and started all over again. I downloaded the photos from your link to inaturalist.org and copied your spotting picture. I then put them side-by-side on my laptop screen. The picture from inaturalist (the grasshopper climbing on a white wall) and your picture were rotated to horizontal and then I mirror-imaged the inaturalist photo to face the same direction as yours. I then scaled them to match each other and despite the poor quality of the inaturalist photo, i was convinced by what I saw. I am sure that they are a match. You have been right all along. If this were my spotting, I would be comfortable calling it Cibotopteryx rehni. Sometimes these simple "baby steps" (at least, for me) are the best way to get rid of any preconceived ideas. Now, I seem to have cluttered up your spotting page with all of my ramblings, so I will leave you with this comment which I hope will help and I will remove all the irrelevant stuff. I hope you are O.K. with that. John.
You are right, herbst.theresa. It does look very much like a Lubber Grasshopper, family Romaleidae. I think I have seen pictures of this before. I will continue checking and if I find it, I will send you an I.D. Suggestion.
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No Clutter at all! I apprecieate your help!!! It is facinating , your learning process!
I found the old documents I was looking for and they are not relevant. So, I went back to your spotting and started all over again. I downloaded the photos from your link to inaturalist.org and copied your spotting picture. I then put them side-by-side on my laptop screen. The picture from inaturalist (the grasshopper climbing on a white wall) and your picture were rotated to horizontal and then I mirror-imaged the inaturalist photo to face the same direction as yours. I then scaled them to match each other and despite the poor quality of the inaturalist photo, i was convinced by what I saw. I am sure that they are a match. You have been right all along. If this were my spotting, I would be comfortable calling it Cibotopteryx rehni. Sometimes these simple "baby steps" (at least, for me) are the best way to get rid of any preconceived ideas. Now, I seem to have cluttered up your spotting page with all of my ramblings, so I will leave you with this comment which I hope will help and I will remove all the irrelevant stuff. I hope you are O.K. with that. John.
@john, I think is more similar to Genus Cibotopteryx and I can only find 1 photo of anything that looks similar...
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/247343-...
You are right, herbst.theresa. It does look very much like a Lubber Grasshopper, family Romaleidae. I think I have seen pictures of this before. I will continue checking and if I find it, I will send you an I.D. Suggestion.