Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Entomology

Key to the Subfamily Oedipodinae

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J Median carina strikingly elevated; bands on tegmina indistinct and composed of many spots; face distinctly mottled; common in eastern Colorado.
 

Spharagemon collare (Scudder)

Pronotum	Tegmen	Wing

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J' Median carina well marked but not high, often more elevated on prozona than metazona; bands on tegmina fairly distinct; face not distinctly mottled; eastern Colorado.

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K Bands on tegmina separated by more than the width of a band; bands usually distinct and solid.

Tegmen
Spharagemon humile (Morse)

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K' Bands on tegmina not separated by more than the width of a band; bands less distinct and usually composed of spots.
 

Spharagemon equale (Say)

Tegmen	Pronotum

[Trimerotropis spp. sometimes will key to this point because the anterior incision of the median carina may be weak.]

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