Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains


 

Melanoplus punctulatus Scudder

Grizzled grasshopper

Adults

  • Outer face of hind femur crossed by two transverse bands.
  • Hind tibia deep red or gray.
  • Male cercus flattened, Moon boot-shaped.
  • Furculae marked only by swellings.
  • Subanal plate tuberculate.
  • Female cercus nearly quadrate, blunt ended.
  • Both dorsal and ventral valves of ovipositor without a prominent tooth.
  • Confined to oak savanah- arboreal.
Nymphs
  • Eye spotted with white.
  • Pronotum olive brown dorsally and pale gray-brown laterally.
  • Lateral crescent confined to prozona.
  • Outer face of hind femur crossed by two transverse bands.
  • Confined to oak savannah- arboreal.

ND/SD Map

 


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