Modest Grasshopper

Brownish or grayish, mottled darker, with parallel dark lines on top of the pronotum; red on hind tibiae and inner face of hind femora; short oval widely separated tegmina. Regarding the two subspecies in Texas, the following is taken from the original description of A. modestus subspecies crypsidomus at Hebard, July 25, 1922 , Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. XLVIII: 49 ; 'New Genera and Species of Melanopli Found within the United States and Canada' (Orthoptera; Acrididae). Part IV. The subspecies aristus was described from Uvalde, Texas in the same publication. The present geographic race is separated from A. modestus aristus, here described, by the average smaller size and less swollen pronotum. Males are further separated by the shorter cerci, the forks of which are much shorter, with the external arm short- er than the internal arm. Females are less readily distingished by the proportionately smaller tegmina, which are separated by a moderate interspace. Compared with the type of A. modestus modestus Bruner, a female, individuals of that sex of the present race are distin- guished by their smaller size and red coloration of the distal portions of the caudal tibiae. The slightly more swollen pro- notum and form and position of the tegmina show a development approximately intermediate between that of tu. modestus and m. aristus. In this publication the subspecies crypsidomus was examined from: Sanderson, Terrell County, Texas, USA Marathon, Brewster County, Texas Garden Spring Persimmon Gap Avery Canyon, Grapevine Hills Neville Spring Moss Well, Chisos Mountains Lost Mine Peak, Chisos Mountains Canyon behind Pulliam Bluff, Chisos Mountains Pine Mountain, Davis Mountains Maguires Ranch, upper Limpia Canyon, Davis Mountains Quitman Mountains, El Paso County, Texas Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico Here are photos of a paratype female of A. modestus subspecies crypsidomus