Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Walsh, B.D. (1866) Grasshoppers and Locusts. Practical Entomologist, 2(1), 1–5. Available from http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15496209
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Acrididae
- genus
- Melanoplus
- species
- Melanoplus spretus
Name
- Synonyms
- Caloptenus coeruleipes Cockerell, 1889
- Caloptenus spretus Walsh, 1866
- Melanoplus spretis
- Pezotettix spretus (Walsh, 1866)
- Homonyms
- Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866)
- Common names
- Rocky Mounatin locust in language.
- Rocky Mountain Locust in الانكليزية
- Rocky Mountain Locust in الانكليزية
- Rocky Mountain grasshopper in الانكليزية
- Rocky Mountain grasshopper in language.
- Rocky Mountain locust in الانكليزية
- criquet des montagnes rocheuses in الفرنسية
- Rocky Mountain Locust in الانكليزية
Bibliographic References
- Bruner, L. 1883. On reference to the Rocky Mountain locust. Chapt. 4 Notes on other locusts and on the western cricket. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. 3
- Bruner, L. 1883. The Rocky Mountain Locust in 1880 and in Wyoming, Montana & C., in 1881. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. 3:8-20, 21-52
- Bruner, L. 1884. Observations on the Rocky Mountain Locust during the summer of 1883. Bulletin. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology (Bull. Dep. Agric. Ent.) 4:51-62
- Cohn. 1994. The use of male genitalia in taxonomy and comments on Lockwood's 1989 paper on Melanoplus spretus (Walsh). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 3:59-63
- Gurney & A.R. Brooks. 1959. Grasshoppers of the Mexicanus Group, genus Melanoplus (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus.) 110:1-93
- Hebard. 1928. The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 80:282
- Hebard. 1929. The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 81:390
- Hebard. 1935. Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part I and Part II. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 61:304
- Hoekstra. 1998. Conserving Orthoptera in the wild: lessons from Trimerotropis infantilis (Oedipodinae). Journal of Insect Conservation (J. Insect Conservation) 2(3-4):179
- Johnson, D.L. 2002. Spur-throated grasshoppers of the Canadian prairies and northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 8:16
- Liebermann. 1965. Nuevos materiales homotípicos en la colección de acridios del Instituto de Patología Vegetal, Instituto Nacional de Technología Agropecuaria, INTA (Orthoptera). Physis 25:219
- Lockwood, J.A. 1989. Taxonomic status of the Rocky Mountain Locust: morphametric comparisons of Melanoplus spretus (Walsh) with solitary and migratory Melanoplus sanguinipes (F.). (in English with French summary). Canadian Entomologist (Canadian Ent.) 121(12):1103-1109
- Lockwood, J.A. 1996. Phallic facts, fallacies, and fantasies: comments on Cohn's 1994 paper on Melanoplus spretus (Walsh). Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 5:57
- Lockwood, J.A. 2001. Voices from the past: what we can learn from the Rocky Mountain Locust. American Entomologist (Amer. Ent.) 47(4):208-215
- Lockwood, J.A. 2004. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that shaped the American Frontier, Basic Books, New York 320 pp.
- Lockwood, J.A. 2010. The fate of the Rocky Mountain locust, Melanoplus spretus Walsh: implications for conservation biology. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 3(2):129-160
- Lockwood, S. 1989. Taxonomic status of the Rocky Mountain Locust: morphometric comparisons of Melanoplus spretus (Walsh) with solitary and migratory Melanoplus sanguinipes (F). Canadian Entomologist (Canadian Ent.) 121:1103
- Otte, Daniel, 1995: Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File 4. 518.
- Packard Jr. 1875. Caloptenus spretus in Massachusetts. The American Naturalist (Am. Nat.) 9:573
- Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Notes on Orthoptera from northern and central Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 56:537