Brachystola magna (Girard)
Plains lubber grasshopper
Adults
- Body length > 4 cm.
- Prnotum rugose and tuberculate
above.
- Pronotum with evenly diverging
lateral carinae.
- Tegmina short, round.
- Lobes of hind femur of equal size.
(Upper lobe larger in all other
'hoppers).
- Hind tibia with two apical calcariae
(spurs) and an apical spine on
outerface- all other 'hoppers lack the
spine.
Nymphs
- Prnotum rugose and tuberculate
above.
- With evenly diverging lateral
carinae.
- Lobes of hind femur of equal size.
(Upper lobe larger in all other
'hoppers).
- Hind tibia with two apical calcariae
(spurs) and an apical spine on
outerface- all other 'hoppers lack the
spine.
- Lateral carina black with a yellow to
orange stripe mesad.
- Anterior and posterior margins of
pronotum white.
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