Size: 24-43 mm.
General distribution: E. of Rocky Mountains to E. New Mexico, N. to Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, Canada.
Distribution in New Mexico: Chaves, Lea, Quay, Union.
Habitat: Sand dunes.
Host: Apparently eats Psoralea sp.
Adults Present: June-August.
Notes: A widely variable genus of band-winged grasshoppers;
median ridge almost never high, always cut by two sulci; eyes relatively
large; hind wings almost always banded; tegmina banding variable. T.
agrestis differs from other members of the genus in NM in having unbanded
tegmina. Hind wings with yellow basal area and with central dark band with
short spur; inner hind femora orange with two black patches; hind tibiae
orange; hind tarsi white. Habitat also useful in determination. Not economically
important.
Reference: Otte 1984.
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