Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains


 

Melanoplus flavidus Scudder

Yellowish grasshopper

Adults

  • Tegmen not spotted.
  • Ventral femur bright yellow.
  • Hind tibia blue.
  • Male cercus flattened and 'finger-like' upturned with a straight ventral margin.
  • Furculae flattened, each with apex rounded and spatulate in outline.
  • Male subanal plate with a weak median tubercle.
  • Ovipositor with a dorsal tooth.
Nymphs
  • Probably indistinguishable from M. bowditchi.

ND/SD Map

 


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