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Melanoplus borealis Fieber 1853
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Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853
Melanoplus borealis borealis: Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 828; Vickery, 1984: 11; Berman et al., 1995: 2; Vickery, 1997: 226. Melanoplus borealis: Haberski et al., 2021: 5, 37.
Melanoplus gordonae: Vickery, 1969: 258.
Remarks. This species ranges east to Newfoundland and as far south as Colorado and Massachusetts and recorded from Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. It is highly variable in color and wing morphology. Both long and short-winged morphotypes are present. Described from Alaska Melanoplus gordonae Vickery, 1969 now is considered as a synonym of Melanoplus b. borealis (Haberski et al., 2021).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acrididae
- Genus
- Melanoplus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fieber
- Species
- borealis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853 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
- Vickery, V. R. (1969) Two new species of Sub-Arctic American Orthoptera. Entomological News, 80, 265 - 272.