Length: male, 1 1/4 in.; female, 1 1/2 in.; slender; greenish brown; hind tibiae red; apical portions of male cerci evenly expanded. Eggs forty to fifty-nine per pod; adults, July to October at Yuma. Normally inhabits rich vegetation in washes, but occasionally injurious to cultivated crops. At times one of the most destructive species on alfalfa, clover, and cotton in the Yuma district. Most common along the Colorado River in Yuma, Mohave, and Coconino counties; common in Upper Sonoran Zone of Yavapai County. California to New Mexico, and north to Colorado.