Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States

A grayish-brown species with a black stripe that usually extends from the eye onto the lateral lobe of the pronotum. Forewings are long, brownish, and bear a row of dark-brown spots centrally. They extend at least to the tip of the abdomen and sometimes considerably beyond. Hind femora usually have two oblique dark bands. Hind tibiae are normally red but sometimes blue. Males are 19-24 mm long, females 18-32 mm. 

In males, the furcula is slender with diverging extensions, and measures about one-fourth to one-third the length of the supra-anal plate. The cerci are compact, about twice as long as broad, extending slightly upward and rounded at the tip. The tip of the subgenital plate is extended; when viewed from above it is clearly notched in the middle.