Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Entomology

KEY TO WYOMING GRASSHOPPERS: Melanoplinae

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84a Head of normal size, not disproportionately large. go to 85

Genus Melanoplus (The key to this genus is applicable for the male sex only)

84b Head disproportionately large. Tegmina reduced to pads, sometimes organs of flight fully developed. Furcula minute. Male cerci tapering suddenly, slender apically. Male subgenital plate with apical tubercle. Hind tibia plae blue.

 
End of male abdomen.
Adult male.
End of male abdomen.
Adult male.
Adult female.
  
Adult female.
  

Phoetaliotes nebrascensis (Thomas)

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