Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains

Handsome purple-striped grasshopper/Showy purple-striped grasshopper*/Marsh elder grasshopper*

Adults

• Pronotum evenly rounded from median carina onto lateral lobes (tectate).
  • Pronotum rugose.
  • Median carina marked with purple.
• Wings shorter than abdomen.
• Hind femur marked with purple dorsally and subapically.

Nymphs

• Pronotum evenly rounded from median carina onto lateral lobes (tectate).
  • Pronotum rugose.