Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
Entomology
Key to the Subfamily Oedipodinae
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D Wings colorless or pale blue, without dark bands; head appearing disproportionately
large; tegmina without bands, usually spotted; length 20-25 mm; eastern Colorado.
(Now considered to be a Gomphocerine.)
Tegmen
Heliaula rufa (Scudder)
D' Wing disc faintly to strongly colored yellow and with dark band present; tegmina
with bands; head appearing small to normal in size; inner face of hind femora dark
blue; length 29-46 mm; eastern Colorado (in some specimens the cells of the tegmen
are regularly quadrilateral).
Tegmen
Hadrotettix trifasciatus (Say)
[If wing disc is blue refer back to Leprus; if inner face of hind femora are orange or red basally see Trimerotropis magnifica.]
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