Thank you! Now I know.

When I was a kid, we just called them "Black-wingers" (as apposed to yellow, red, or whatever other color). "Road Duster" is another common name. Lots of people confuse them with butterflies.

I somewhat similar species in northeastern Arizona with blue, red, and as I recall black hind wings. Are these in the same genus? If I come across these later this summer and fall I'll try to obtain photos.

in this genus that occur in Arizona, though there are three other species in the genus. One of them has black wings, one has nearly clear whitish wings, and the other has pink wings. The other colored-winged grasshoppers that you will see commonly are mostly in the same subfamily (Oedipodinae), and are diverse with abundant species in Arizona. The subfamily, as a group, is usually refered to as the "Band-wing Grasshoppers", since a majority of them have colored wings crossed by a dark band. There are exceptions, and the Carolina Grasshopper is one. It basically has the dark band expanded to dominate the wing surface (or perhaps the colors have been reversed), there are a few other species in which the dark color is broad and dominates the wing, but not to the same extent. There are some that have no dark cross band, and some that have little color at all to the wings.

If you go to the top of this post and click on "Oedipodinae", and then click on "Browse" or "Images", you will see examples ("Images" will show you all of them, and it is a lot of pages).