Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Entomology

Key to the Trimerotropis Species

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C Front of head with dark bands below and above antennal bases; median carina not extremely elevated on prozona, two lobes not prominent; hind tibiae blue or yellow-brown; usually associated with forested areas; locally common.

Head
Trimerotropis cincta (Thomas)

[Conozoa texana may key to this point but band above antennal bases weak to absent; two lobes are prominent on the median carina of the pronotum.]

 

Conozoa texana (Bruner)

Head	Pronotum

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C' Front of head without a band.

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<D Hind tibiae blue; uncommon.

Trimerotropis fontana Thomas

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D' Hind tibiae not blue.

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