Key to the Bird Grasshoppers

3a Subgenital plate of male with a V-shaped notch at tip. Tegmina usually purple-brown. Hind tibiae blackish-purple...

Terminal segment of abdomen of Schistocerca showing V-shaped notch.

3b Subgenital plate of male with a U-shaped notch at tip. Tegmina yellowish, brownish, to green... go to 4

Terminal segment of abdomen of Schistocerca, showing U-shaped notch (indicated by dashed line).