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.
- Hind femur with broken dark cross bands.
- Post-ocular band and lateral crescent largely obsolete.
- Eyes speckled and faintly banded (life).
