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Melanoplus femurrubrum

Description

Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773)

Melanoplus femurrubrum femurrubrum: Vickery, 1967: 253; Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 823.

Remarks. This subspecies has a very wide distribution in Canada, from the Atlantic (but not Newfoundland and Labrador) to the Pacific and northward into the southern part of the Northwest Territories (Vickery & Kevan, 1983). It also occurs over most of the continental United States (but not in Alaska).

Notes

Published as part of Storozhenko, Sergey Yu., 2023, Orthoptera of Northeast Asia and Northwest America, pp. 564-578 in Zootaxa 5264 (4) on page 569, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7837186

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Acrididae
Genus
Melanoplus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
De Geer
Species
femurrubrum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melanoplus femurrubrum (Geer, 1773) sec. Storozhenko, 2023

References

  • Vickery, V. R. (1967) The Orthoptera of Alaska, Yukon and the Mackenzie district of the Northwest Territories. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 93 (3), 249 - 278.
  • Vickery, V. R. & Kevan, D. K. M. (1983) A monograph of the Orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Vols. I - II. Memoir of Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 13, 1 - 1462.