Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
Entomology
Key to the Subfamily Oedipodinae
Previous Step (B')C Distinct bands absent from tegmina; median carina strongly elevated, but incision of median carina weak; wings yellow basally, smoky distally; eastern Colorado; adults present in early spring.
Pronotum
Chortophaga viridifasciata (DeGeer)
[Psoloessa, Aulocara, and Stenobothrus will key to this point, if the face is determined to be vertical. Psoloessa spp. are small, Chortophaga is medium sized; hind tibiae are bright blue in Aulocara, but grey-brown in Chortophaga; Stenobothrus is small to medium sized with orange-brown hind tibia; all the Gomphocerinae that
key to this point have colorless wings;
see subfamily Gomphocerinae.]
C' Distinct bands present on tegmina (distal portion may be mottled); median carina slightly elevated, but incision of median carina pronounced.
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