Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Entomology

Key to Subfamily Oedipodinae

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I Sides of frontal costa nearly parallel throughout; prozona and metazona approximately equal to length; eastern Colorado.
 

Hippiscus ocelote (Saussure)

Head	Pronotum	Wing

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I' Sides of frontal costa considerably narrowed between or above antennae; metazona longer than prozona.
 

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J Spots on tegmina numerous; light colored "V" formed when tegmina folded; area between arms of "V" is dark; anterior extremity of vertex not prolonged.
 

Tegmen	Tegmina folded showing light colored "V"	Head

Pardalophora haldemanii (Scudder)

Head	Pronotum

[Xanthippus and Cratypedes will key to this point if the anterior incision of the median carina is very weak; the middle of the pronotum is collapsed between the two incisions in Xanthippus, or anterior to the incision if only one incision is visible; the median carina is distinct and not crumpled or collapsed except for one distinct incision in Pardalophora. Cratypedes can be distinguished from Pardalophora by the pattern on the tegmina. Pardalophora has discrete, fairly large dark spots; Cratypedes tends to have indistinct, irregular spotting patterns.]

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J' Spots on tegmina few; dark area within "V" not present; anterior extremity of fastigium of vertex prolonged.
 

Pardalophora apiculata (Harris)

Tegmen	Head

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