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).