Melanoplus ponderosus (Scudder, 1875)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
SPECIES: Published in
Scudder, S.H. (1875) A Century of Orthoptera Decade III Acrydii (Pezotettix, Caloptenus). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 17, 472–478. Available from http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofbos17bostuoft

Classification

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

Name

Synonyms: Caloptenus ponderosus Scudder, 1875; Caloptenus robustus Scudder, 1875; Melanoplus ponderosus ponderosus; Melanoplus robustus
Homonyms: Melanoplus ponderosus (Scudder, 1875)
Common names: Ponderous Spur-throat Grasshopper in English

Bibliographic References

Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of northeastern America with special reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida, Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis 405
Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 131, Plate 28
Hebard. 1920. New genera and species of Melanopli found within the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 46:370
Otte, D. 2012. Eighty new Melanoplus species from the United States (Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society (Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 138(1-2):157
Otte, Daniel, 1995: Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File 4. 518.
Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell. 1902. A first list of the Orthoptera of New Mexico. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences (Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci.) 9:50
Scudder, S.H. 1875. A Century of Orthoptera Decade III Acrydii (Pezotettix, Caloptenus). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.) 17:473
Scudder, S.H. 1878. A Century of Orthoptera, Decades VIII, IX and X. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.) 20:84
Scudder, S.H. 1897. Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acrididae) with special reference to North American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus.) 20 (1124):354
Slifer. 1943. The internal genitalia of some previously unstudied species of female Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology 72(2):227