Melanoplus punctulatus Scudder
Grizzled grasshopper
Adults
- Outer face of hind femur crossed by
two transverse bands.
- Hind tibia deep red or gray.
- Male cercus flattened, Moon boot-shaped.
- Furculae marked only by swellings.
- Subanal plate tuberculate.
- Female cercus nearly quadrate, blunt
ended.
- Both dorsal and ventral valves of
ovipositor without a prominent tooth.
- Confined to oak savanah- arboreal.
Nymphs
- Eye spotted with white.
- Pronotum olive brown dorsally and
pale gray-brown laterally.
- Lateral crescent confined to prozona.
- Outer face of hind femur crossed by
two transverse bands.
- Confined to oak savannah- arboreal.
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