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Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States
As in the southern green-striped grasshopper, Chortophaga australior, there are two color forms, a green form and a brown form, with intermediates found in both sexes. The principal difference between forms is in the coloring of the head, thorax, and outer face of the hind femora. Abdomen is reddish brown in both forms. Median ridge on the pronotum is slightly elevated. Hind wing is not distinctly pigmented, though the tip is grayish or blackish and the base yellowish. Antennae are red and rather short. Hind tibiae are normally yellowish or brownish, though sometimes tending toward blue. Males are 23-30 mm long, females 28-38 mm.
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