Nisquallia olympica male

Unsurprisingly, wherever you see the easier-to-spot female Nisquallia olympica, you also find the smaller, slimmer males. Males I’ve seen exhibit less color variability than females, but do range from dark slate gray to brownish.

Photo 6 shows the underside of a male clinging to a plastic terrarium wall.

The Rehn paper includes two photos of a male. Note that the single male specimen was missing antennae and had one malformed hind leg.

“Two New Melanoploid Genera (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae) from the Western United States” James A. G. Rehn, Transactions of the American Entomological Society (1890-), Vol. 78, No. 2 (Jun., 1952), pp. 101-115. (See JSTOR link)