Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
Entomology
Key to Subfamily Gomphocerinae
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D Tegmina of females approximately the length of head and pronotum; tegmina of males
not reaching tips of hind femora, and lacking stridulatory pegs on intercalary vein;
males black, females sometimes blackish; hind tibiae pink to red; widespread in eastern
Colorado, but generally not common.
D' Tegmina of females approximately 1 1/2 times the length of head and pronotum; tegmina
of males reaching or extending beyond tips of hind femora and with stridulatory pegs
on intercalary vein; males greenish or brown; mountains of central Colorado.
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Top view of pronotum |
Stethophyma gracile (Scudder)
[if the specimen has tegmina extending beyond the tips of the hind femora, broad bands
on the tegmina, and blue hind tibiae, it may be an Oedipodine, Encoptolophus.]
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