Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains

Green fool grasshopper

Adults

• General color powdery green (life).
• Leopard spotted variant in more southern populations.
• Face very slanted.
• Antennae slightly ensiform, purple-brown.
• Pronotum with high arching crest on metazona.
• Posterior lobe of pronotum < 90^o.
• Hindwings yellow with a clear apex.
• Crossed by a very broad black band.

• Characters as adults, lack functional wings.