Melanoplus sanguinipes

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Melanoplus sanguinipes
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Melanoplinae
Genus: Melanoplus
Species:
M. sanguinipes
Binomial name
Melanoplus sanguinipes
(Fabricius, 1798)

Melanoplus sanguinipes, known generally as migratory grasshopper, is a species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae. Other common names include the lesser migratory grasshopper and red-legged grasshopper. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is found in the Caribbean and North America. [1] [5]

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Subspecies

These four subspecies belong to the species Melanoplus sanguinipes:

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 sanguinipes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  2. 1 2 "Melanoplus sanguinipes species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  3. 1 2 "Melanoplus sanguinipes". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  4. 1 2 "Melanoplus sanguinipes Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  5. Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. "Orthoptera Species File Online" . Retrieved 2018-05-01.