Chortippus curtipennis curtipennis: Vickery, 1967: 274; Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 1127; Vickery, 1984: 28; Vickery, 1997: 231.
Pseudochorthippus curtipennis: Haberski et al., 2021: 42.
Remarks. One of the most widely distributed Nearctic grasshoppers, occurring throughout Canada and the United States including Alaska, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, and found in a variety of habitats, including bogs, fens, and tundra. Another subspecies, P. c. californicus (Vickery, 1967) was described from California.