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Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder 1878

Description

Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878

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.

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
Scudder
Species
kennicottii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878 sec. Storozhenko, 2023

References

  • 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.
  • Vickery, V. R. (1984) The Orthopteroid insects of Yukon. Note of Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 10, 1 - 42.
  • Berman, D. I., Storozhenko, S. Yu. & Kholin, S. K. (1995) To the fauna and bionomics of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of the Southern Yukon, Canada. Far Eastern Entomologist, 23, 1 - 8.
  • Vickery, V. R. (1997) Orthopteroid insects (Orthoptera) of Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. & Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 223 - 239.
  • Haberski, A., Woller, D. A. & Sikes, D. S. (2021) Orthoptera of Alaska: A photographic key, new records, and synonymy of Melanoplus gordonae. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 44, 1 - 52. https: // doi. org / 10.3752 / cjai. 2021.44