Federal grasshopper
Adults
- Pale stripe from eye to end of pronotum.
- Hind tibia blue, purple, glaucus, or pink.
- Male cercus spatulate, broader at base than apex.
- Subanal plate triangular with a rounded tubecle at apex.
- Ovipositor with a dorsal tooth- females can only be determined by association.
- Cannot be separated in the field with
certainty from Melanoplus packardii.
- Aedeagus with ventral lobe protruding at a right angle.
- A species often associated with sandy soil.
- Grass green or brown.
- Body surface with black flecks.
- Inseparable from M. packardii.
