Melanoplus kennicottii kennicottii: Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 853; Vickery, 1984: 16; Berman et al., 1995: 3; Vickery, 1997: 228.
Melanoplus kennicottii: Haberski et al., 2021: 40.
Remarks. This species occurs throughout the grasslands of western Canada and United States (southwards to Colorado and New Mexico) with disjunct populations in the dry grasslands of the Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories.