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Melanoplus Stål, 1873

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
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Published in
Stål, C. (1873) 1 Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et ThunbergAcridiodea. Stockholm. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ 153 pp.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Orthoptera
family
Acrididae
genus
Melanoplus

Name

Synonyms
Aeoloplus Scudder, 1897
Caloptenus dodgei Otte, 2012
Caloptenus punctulatus Rehn, 1946
Gryllus bivittatus Strohecker, Middlekauff & Rentz, 1968
Melanoplus Scudder, 1899
Melanoplus harperi Gurney & Buxton, 1968
Melanoplus keiferi Strohecker, Middlekauff & Rentz, 1968
Melanoplus reflexus Scudder, 1897
Melanoplus tribulus Hebard, 1935
Monopterus Fischer von Waldheim, 1846
Pezotettix marginatus Rehn, 1923
Pezotettix puer Hubbell, 1932
Homonyms
Melanoplus Stål, 1873
Melanoplus Scudder, 1899

Bibliographic References

  1. Barrientos Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez & Horta-Vega. 2013. Two new species of Melanoplus Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) from northeastern Mexico. Zootaxa 3669(3):262
  2. Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. 1951. Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad 1:232[246]
  3. Bruner, L. 1908. Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 2:317
  4. Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova) 2 13(33):146
  5. Carstens & L.L. Knowles. 2007. Estimating species phylongeny from gene-tree probabilities despite incomplete lineage sorting: An example from Melanoplus grasshoppers. Syst. Biol. 56:400-411
  6. Chang, K.S.F. 1940. The group Podismae from China (Acrididae, Orthoptera). Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise, Musée Heude (Notes Ent. Chinoise) 7:31-97, 3 pls.
  7. Chapco & Litzenberger. 2002. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the grasshopper genus Melanoplus Stal (Orthoptera: Acrididae) - an update. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 11(1):1-9
  8. Chapco, Kuperus & Litzenberger. 1999. Molecular phylogeny of melanopline grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae): the genus Melanoplus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer.) 92(5):617-623
  9. CoL2006
  10. Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):238
  11. Fontana & Buzzetti. 2007. New or little known Mexican Melanoplinae (Orthoptera Acridinae). Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati (Atti Acc. Rov. Agiati) 8 7(B):76
  12. Guenther, S.J. & Chapco. 1990. Amorphometric analysis of Melanoplus females (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 66(1):39-42
  13. Gurney & P.A. Buxton. 1968. Grasshoppers of the genus Karokia and of the saltator, immunis, and harperi species groups of the genus Melanoplus in California and Oregon (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Occasional Papers of the Bureau of Entomology (Occ. Pap. Bur. Ent. Calif. Dept. Agric.) 13:10, 22, 32
  14. Gurney. 1977. Taxonomic status of the genus Melanoplus, with special reference to the montanus species-group. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina (Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent.) 36(1-4):85-87
  15. Handford. 1946. The identification of nymphs of the genus Melanoplus of Manitoba and adjacent areas. Sci. Agric. 26:147-180
  16. Hebard. 1934. The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History (Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist.) 20:190
  17. Holst, K.T. (2004-02-15 23:00:00) The Saltatoria (Bush-crickets, crickets and grasshoppers) of Northern Europe
  18. Hubbell. 1932. A revision of the Puer group of the North American genus Melanoplus, with remarks on the taxonomic value of the concealed male genitalia on the Cyrtacanthacrineae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan (Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool.) 23:64 pp.
  19. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 835 Melanoplus Stål, 1873, Acrydium Femurrubrum de Geer, 1773, and Gryllus sanguinipes Fabricius, 1798 (Insecta, Orthoptera): added to the Official Lists.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 24, 329-330 (1968)
  20. Johnson, D.L. 2002. Spur-throated grasshoppers of the Canadian prairies and northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 8:16-25
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