Melanoplus Stål, 1873

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
GENUS: Published in
Stål, C. (1873) Acridiodea. In Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg. Stockholm. Vol. 1, 153 pp. Available from http://books.google.com/books?id=oH4qAAAAYAAJ

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Arthropoda: class
Insecta: order
Orthoptera: family
Acrididae: genus
Melanoplus

Name

Synonyms: Aeoloplus Scudder, 1897; Monopterus Fischer von Waldheim, 1846
Homonyms: Melanoplus Stål, 1873
Common names: North American Spur-throated Grasshoppers in language.; North American Spur-throated Grasshoppers in language.

Bibliographic References

Barrientos Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez & Horta-Vega. 2013. Two new species of Melanoplus Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) from northeastern Mexico. Zootaxa 3669(3):262
Bey-Bienko & Mistshenko. 1951. Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1963 English translation no. 38]. Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad 1:232[246]
Bruner, L. 1908. Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 2:317
Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1893. Révision du système des Orthoptères et déscription des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova) 2 13(33):146
Carstens & L.L. Knowles. 2007. Estimating species phylongeny from gene-tree probabilities despite incomplete lineage sorting: An example from Melanoplus grasshoppers. Syst. Biol. 56:400-411
Chang, K.S.F. 1940. The group Podismae from China (Acrididae, Orthoptera). Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise, Musée Heude (Notes Ent. Chinoise) 7:31-97, 3 pls.
Chapco & Litzenberger. 2002. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the grasshopper genus Melanoplus Stal (Orthoptera: Acrididae) - an update. Journal of Orthoptera Research (Jour. Orth. Res.) 11(1):1-9
Chapco, Kuperus & Litzenberger. 1999. Molecular phylogeny of melanopline grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae): the genus Melanoplus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America (Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer.) 92(5):617-623
CoL2006
Defaut & Morichon. 2015. Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 97(1a,b):238
Fontana & Buzzetti. 2007. New or little known Mexican Melanoplinae (Orthoptera Acridinae). Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati (Atti Acc. Rov. Agiati) 8 7(B):76
Guenther, S.J. & Chapco. 1990. Amorphometric analysis of Melanoplus females (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 66(1):39-42
Gurney & P.A. Buxton. 1968. Grasshoppers of the genus Karokia and of the saltator, immunis, and harperi species groups of the genus Melanoplus in California and Oregon (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Occasional Papers of the Bureau of Entomology (Occ. Pap. Bur. Ent. Calif. Dept. Agric.) 13:10, 22, 32
Gurney. 1977. Taxonomic status of the genus Melanoplus, with special reference to the montanus species-group. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina (Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent.) 36(1-4):85-87
Handford. 1946. The identification of nymphs of the genus Melanoplus of Manitoba and adjacent areas. Sci. Agric. 26:147-180
Hebard. 1934. The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History (Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist.) 20:190
Holst (2004-02-15 23:00:00) The Saltatoria (Bush-crickets, crickets and grasshoppers) of Northern Europe
Hubbell. 1932. A revision of the Puer group of the North American genus Melanoplus, with remarks on the taxonomic value of the concealed male genitalia on the Cyrtacanthacrineae (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan (Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool.) 23:64 pp.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 835 Melanoplus Stål, 1873, Acrydium Femurrubrum de Geer, 1773, and Gryllus sanguinipes Fabricius, 1798 (Insecta, Orthoptera): added to the Official Lists.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 24, 329-330 (1968)
Johnson, D.L. 2002. Spur-throated grasshoppers of the Canadian prairies and northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 8:16-25