Velvet-striped grasshopper
Adults
- Antennae of males clavate, of females simple.
- Head with a median carina on fastigum.
- Lateral foveola not visible from above.
- Pronotum with deep black (velvet) stripes visible from above.
- Lateral carinae of pronotum slightly constricted at mid-length only.
- Tegmen with a basal white streak.
- Adults occur in Spring to very early Summer.
- Adult structural characters but with ensiform antennae.
- Nymphs from late Summer to early Spring.
- Only Amphitornus, Opeia, and Orphulella nymphs at all similar. These are nymphs of late Spring to mid-Summer.
