Nymphs molt six times before reaching adulthood. The total nymphal stage lasts from 59 to 108 days depending on temperature and host. The ovipositor, which allows the female to deposit eggs into plant tissues, first appears as a projection at the end of the body during the second nymphal stage and continues to increase in size until sexual maturity is reached at adulthood. The adult longhorned grasshopper is bright green with a reddish brown stripe running from the front of the face down the length of the body. Sometimes white or yellowish stripes are on either side of the main reddish-brown stripe.
Antennae are green with brown rings and entirely brown at the tips.
Most grasshoppers are primarily grass and foliage feeders. However, this grasshopper often feeds on smaller insects such as sugar cane leafhoppers and aphids, and is only occasionally known to feed on young sugar cane and the blossoms of Canna, lantana and other plants. No information available. Bulletin of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planter's Association, Division of Entomology. Zimmerman, E. C. 1948.