Melanoplus ponderosus

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Melanoplus ponderosus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Melanoplinae
Genus: Melanoplus
Species:
M. ponderosus
Binomial name
Melanoplus ponderosus
(Scudder, 1875)

Melanoplus ponderosus, the ponderous spur-throat grasshopper, is a species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is found in North America. [1] [5]

Melanoplinae Subfamily of insects

The Melanoplinae are a subfamily of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. They are distributed across the Holarctic and Neotropic ecozones.

Acrididae Family of grasshoppers in the suborder Caelifera

The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedipodinae is sometimes classified as a distinct family Oedipodidae in the superfamily Acridoidea. Acrididae grasshoppers are characterized by relatively short and stout antennae, and tympana on the side of the first abdominal segment.

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Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Melanoplus ponderosus:

Data sources: i = ITIS, [1] c = Catalogue of Life, [2] g = GBIF, [3] b = Bugguide.net [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Melanoplus ponderosus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  2. 1 2 "Melanoplus ponderosus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  3. 1 2 "Melanoplus ponderosus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. 1 2 "Melanoplus ponderosus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  5. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. "Orthoptera Species File Online" . Retrieved 2018-04-29.