Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Entomology

Key to Wyoming Grasshoppers: Oedipodinae

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41a Metazona longer than prozona, about twice the length of prozona. Numerous rugae on pronotal disk fine, even, and inconspicuous.

 

Side view of pronotum (note relative lengths of prozona and metazona).	Adult female.

Pardalaphora apiculata (Harris)

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41b Metazona shorter, one and one-half times or less the length of prozona. Rugae less numerous on disk, heavy, irregular, and conspicuous.

 

Top view of pronotum (note relative lengths of prozona and metazona).	Adult male.

Pardalophora haldemanii (Scudder)

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