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Melanoplus fasciatus
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Melanoplus fasciatus (Walker, 1870)
Melanoplus fasciatus: Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 858; Vickery, 1984: 16; Berman et al., 1995: 3; Vickery, 1997: 229; Haberski et al., 2021: 39.
Remarks. This species ranges east to Newfoundland and south to Washington, Colorado, and Massachusetts and west to Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska. It is associated with blueberries and other heath plants (Vickery, 1997). In the vicinity of Kluane Lake it has been found in open grassy sagebrush steppe, tundra and dry tundra at altitude 800–1600 m (Berman et al., 1995).
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 568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7837186
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acrididae
- Genus
- Melanoplus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- fasciatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melanoplus fasciatus (Walker, 1870) 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