Description: Medium-sized, colourful and shiny grasshopper (♂ 16-23 mm, ♀ 22-30 mm). Ground colour is bright green, a black band behind eyes, underside of femur is red, the tibiae are yellow. The brown fore wing is vestigal (4-10 mm long).
Similar species: none
Adults: from July to October
Song: Males have no calling song.
Habitat:  Alpine species, lives in humid grasslands and roadsides in the mountains. Flightless.
Distribution: Only in two regions in the most western part of the country: Kőszegi-hg. (Kőszeg, Bozsok, Velem) and Őrség (Felsőszölnök, Szakonyfalu).
Note: There are only a few known localities of the species in the Őrség region, but there is a chance that M. irena , a sibling species, occurs here too.