Bandwing
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Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers (subfamily Oedipodinae) is a group of insects classified under the family Acrididae.
[edit] Description
These species are colorful, usually with hindwings that are yellow or red and edged with black. Others have black hindwings with pale edges, and a few species (including the most economically important ones) have clear hindwings.
The arolium is extremely small or absent.
[edit] Habitats
They inhabit primarily xeric weedy fields.
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