Aulocara elliotti (Thomas)
Big-headed grasshopper
Adults
- Foveola triangular.
- Lateral carinae strongly constricted
and marked with white.
- Often with dark markings on pronotum, markings not clean-cut.
- Tegmen without transverse bands, but
may be spotted with a pale streak on
dorsal field.
- Outer face of hind femur brown with
partial dark cross-bands indistinct.
- Hind tibia blue.
- Subanal plate of female with a median
projection.
Nymphs
- Highly mottled coloration.
- Appear exceptionally big-headed as
do A. femoratum and P. nebrascensis.
- Foveola triangular and visible from
above.
- Hind femur with triangular dorsal
patch.
- Nymphs in Spring and early summer.
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