About Ligurotettix coquilletti McNeill, 1897
Ligurotettix coquilletti, commonly called the desert clicker grasshopper or creosote bush grasshopper, is a species of slant-faced grasshopper in the family Acrididae. As one of its common names implies, this species feeds on Larrea tridentata, the creosote bush. It is distributed across Central America and North America; within North America, it occurs specifically in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Males of the species defend individual creosote plants as mating territories, and they often prefer plants that contain lower amounts of toxic chemicals.
