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REMAINING (number with state)
Abdomen, overall color
Yellowish (18)
Gray (7)
Found on turf
Found in or adjacent to turfgrass (12)
Other habitats (10)
Urban/suburban yard (6)
Genitalia, cerci shape
Elongate, sclerotized (18)
Short, rounded, not strongly sclerotized (2)
Genitalia, female cerci apex
Attentuated (14)
Short and broadly rounded (2)
Abruptly sharpened in a down curved point (1)
Long and narrowly rounded (1)
Pointed, curves upward (1)
Tapers to a sharp point (1)
Genitalia, female hypogynial valve shape/length
Apex rounded (14)
Apex pointed (4)
Apex truncate (3)
Genitalia, male 8th sternite posterior border
Unmodified (17)
Long setae (3)
Prominent knob shaped median lobe (2)
Genitalia, male 9th sternite shape
With lobes (13)
With long setae facing medially (9)
No hairs or lobes (2)
With swellings but not lobes (2)
Genitalia, male 9th tergite posterior border
Dark spinoid setae present (6)
V-shaped (5)
Median lobe with bilobed apex (4)
Incurved gap with double spines medially (2)
Rounded convex border (2)
Two curved horns (2)
U-shaped gap without teeth or setae (2)
U-shaped with dark teeth along lateral edges (2)
Apex with dark ridge, four black points downward (1)
Two broad lobes, each with a triangular point along edge (1)
Genitalia, male inner gonostylus shape
Hook absent (11)
Hook elongate, slender, curved (6)
Hook very short (3)
Dark hump, no hook (1)
Genitalia, male outer gonostylus shape
Apex strongly narrowed, leaf-shaped (6)
Quadrate, apex rounded (5)
Apex rounded, not quadrate (4)
Dark sclerotized point on posterior margin (1)
Enlarged and thickened with inward curved hooks (1)
Not applicable (1)
Genitalia, male outer gonostylus size
As large or larger than inner gonostylus (12)
Smaller than inner gonostylus (8)
Minute or absent (1)
Head, antennae, coloration of 3rd segment
Yellow (10)
Dark (8)
Yellow and Brown (8)
Head, antennal segment number
13 (18)
14 (2)
16 (1)
Head, eye width ventrally
Wider than 1.5X width of flagellomere 1 (17)
Narrower than 1.5X width of flagellomere 1 (6)
Head, knob extending from the top end of the snout
Present (17)
Absent (4)
Head, vertex tubercle
Low to high (20)
Absent (2)
Include in identification search
Only those species now known to occur in North America (19)
All species including those species not known now from North America but with potential to occur here (2)
Legs with banding
apical dark band on femur (19)
None (4)
Legs, overall color
Yellow brown (19)
Yellow (3)
Brown (2)
Season of adult activity
9. September (15)
10. October (12)
7. July (12)
4. April (11)
5. May (11)
6. June (11)
8. August (11)
3. March (5)
1. January (2)
11. November (2)
2. February (2)
Thorax, overall pleura color
Gray (10)
Yellowish gray (9)
Yellowish orange (6)
Thorax, squama with setae
Absent (11)
Setae present (10)
Thorax, thoracic notum color/pattern
3 dark brown stripes with two lighter brown stripes (9)
3 orange stripes, 2 yellow stripes (6)
Gray with dark brown stripes (5)
Dark overall, stripes indistinct (4)
Yellow brown overall, stripes indistinct (3)
4 dark brown stripes (1)
Thorax, thoracic notum shiny
Dull (17)
shiny- glossy smooth appearance (4)
Wing length
Greater than 9mm or 3/8in but less than 20mm or 13/16in (18)
over 20mm, or 13/16in (5)
Less than 9mm, or 3/8in (3)
Wing length compared to abdomen length of female
As long as or longer than abdomen (17)
Shorter than abdomen (5)
Wing, dark brown costal seam pattern
Absent, color scarely different from rest of wing (10)
Costal and subcostal cells brown to stigma (10)
darker coloration includes RS cell (6)
Costal cells yellowish brown, darker than ground (1)
Costal cells yellowish, slightly darker than ground (1)
Wings, cell CuA2 with invagination at division
Present (18)
Absent (3)
Wings, cell M1 with petiole
Present (17)
Absent (6)
Wings, patterning other than costal seam
No other patterning (14)
White stripe along cord (4)
Brown and pale pattern, with pale spots in cell M and A1 (3)