Melanoplus infantilis Scudder
Little spur-throated grasshopper
Adults
- Body length < 2 cm.
- Hind femur cross-banded with black.
- Hind tibia gray-blue.
- Male cercus an inverted 'boot with a
heel and elongate toe.'
- Furculae small
- Subanal plate evenly rounded with a
bilobed apex.
- Ovipositor with weak dorsal tooth.
Nymphs
- Face with frontal ridge dark, areas
below antennae light.
- Gena and sides of pronotum pale gray.
- Lateral white crescent extends from
mouthparts to end of prozona.
- Hind femur with broken dark bands.
- Distinctive male cercus visible in later
instar nymphs.
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