Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
Entomology
Key to Subfamily Catantopinae (Melanoplinae)
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E' Tegmina shorter than pronotum, not meeting dorsally; hind tibiae blue-green; western Colorado.
Aeoloplides chenopodii (Brunner)
[If a wedge-shaped structure is present ventrally at the base of the hind femur the
specimen is a short-winged form of A. tenuipennis]
Grasshoppers of Colorado Contents
