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From vertex of head to tip of folded wings, approximately:
28-41 mm males 38-55 mm females Our species is not difficult to recognize. Found from southern Arizona to western Texas. Large in size, relatively slender, with long wings and long slender hind femora. Head with vertex rounded and protruding well in front of eyes, with face sloping back downward. Body shades of gray, brown, or green with a row of large dark spots along sides of folded tegmina, sometimes with pale stripes at top margin of pronotum (bent inward toward middle) with area between them dark (often black) and somewhat hourglass-shaped, but also often with wide paler stripe down the middle (and often extending onto head and top of folded wings), with dark vertical stripe below eye. Hind femora cross-banded with dark on light (diagonal on outer face), with inner face variable in color (whitish, orange, reddish, bluish, etc.). Hind tibiae usually a combination of red/orange (toward base) and blue/purple (toward end), but sometimes all one color. The hind tarsi are usually purplish to blue. |
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