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Melanoplus sanguinipes subsp. sanguinipes
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Melanoplus sanguinipes sanguinipes (Fabricius, 1798)
Melanoplus sanguinipes sanguinipes: Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 835; Vickery, 1984: 12; Vickery, 1997: 226.
Melanoplus sanguinipes: Haberski et al., 2021: 41.
Remarks. This species ranges throughout Canada and United States and divided into three subspecies (Cigliano et al., 2022). The nominotypical subspecies has been recorded from Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. Habitats are variable; it inhabits grassy fields, pastures, roadsides, arid lands, open areas in forests, and northern tundra (Vickery & Kevan, 1983).
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 570, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7837186
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Acrididae
- Genus
- Melanoplus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Species
- sanguinipes
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melanoplus sanguinipes subsp. sanguinipes (Fabricius, 1798) 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.
- 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
- Cigliano, M. M., Braun, H., Eades, D. C. & Otte, D. (2022) Orthoptera Species File Online. Version 5.0 / 5.0. Available from: http: // Orthoptera. SpeciesFile. org. (accessed 25 December 2022).