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Length: male, 1 1/8 in.; female, 1% in.; median carina of pronotum high; hind tibiae yellow. Overwinters in egg stage, fifteen to twenty-five eggs to a pod; adults, April to November. (Rehn, 1907, p. 38.)
A common grasshopper on the range and in cultivated fields at a higher elevation than sulcifrons. Especially common in sandy washes in the desert grassland. Feeds on herbaceous plants such as Lupinus, Amaranthus, and Boerhaavia, as well as grasses. Type locality, Huachuca Mountains. Southeastern Arizona west to Tucson, the Baboquivari Mountains, Williamson Valley, and Prescott; north to Ashfork and Springerville. |
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