C Distinct bands absent from tegmina; median carina strongly elevated, but incision of median carina weak; wings yellow basally, smoky distally; eastern Colorado; adults present in early spring.
Pronotum
Chortophaga viridifasciata (DeGeer)
[Psoloessa, Aulocara, and Stenobothrus will key
to this point, if the face is determined to be vertical. Psoloessa
spp. are small, Chortophaga is medium sized; hind tibiae are bright
blue in Aulocara, but grey-brown in Chortophaga; Stenobothrus
is small to medium sized with orange-brown hind tibia; all the Gomphocerinae
that key to this point have colorless wings;
see subfamily Gomphocerinae.]
[Phlibostroma may key to this point, if the face is determined to be vertical; the wings of Phlibostroma are colorless; wings of Encoptolophus are smoky distally.]
Pronotum | Tegmen |
Pronotum
Encoptolophus subgracilis Caudell