Melanoplus bruneri Scudder
Brunner spur-throated grasshopper
Adults
- Black post-ocular stripe with lighter
spots.
- Pronotum not 'saddle-shaped,'
metazona not angled upwards.
- Male with ventral meso-sternal hump.
- Hind femur banding variable, ventral
surface yellow.
- Hind tibia red.
- Male cercus flattened, turned slightly
upturned.
- Subanal plate bi-lobed.
- Furculae parallel, apex not more
distad from mid-line than base.
- Female cercus much narrower than in
M. sanguinipes.
- Ovipositor with weak dorsal tooth.
Nymphs
- Hind femur with broken dark cross
bands.
- Post-ocular band and lateral crescent
largely obsolete.
- Eyes speckled and faintly banded
(life).
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