Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains


 

Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder)

Lakin grasshopper

Adults

  • Tegmina bracypterous and leaf-like.
  • Hind femur with dark cross-bands.
  • Hind tibia blue.
  • Male cercus with swollen base and flattened finger-like projection.
  • Furculae short.
Nymphs
  • Color either brown or green.
  • Eye conspicuously banded (life).
  • Pronotum with up to three pale lateral stripes, most dorsad of which is lateral crescent.
  • Hind femur with broken dark banding pattern.

ND/SD Map

 


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