Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872)

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Thomas, C. (1872) Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions. In Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress. Vol. 5, pp. 423–466, 2 pls. Available from http://books.google.com/books?id=NgdSAAAAcAAJ

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Arthropoda

class

Insecta

order

Orthoptera

family

Acrididae

genus

Melanoplus

species

Melanoplus occidentalis

Name

Synonyms

Caloptenus occidentalis Thomas, 1872

Melanoplus brevipennis Bruner, 1904

Melanoplus flabellifer Scudder, 1878

Melanoplus occidentalis occidentalis

Melanoplus variolosus Scudder, 1878

Homonyms

Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872)

Common names

Flabellate Grasshopper in English

Flabellate Grasshopper in English

Flabellate Grasshopper in English

Bibliographic References

1. Bruner, L. 1893. A list of Nebraska Orthoptera. Publications of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (Publ. Nebraska Acad. Sci.) 3:28
2. Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 130, Plate 27
3. Caudell. 1903. Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus.) 26:803
4. Hebard. 1927. Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 79:8
5. Hebard. 1928. The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 80:277
6. Hebard. 1929. The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 81:386
7. Otte, Daniel, 1995: Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File 4. 518.
8. Pfadt. 1988. Field guide to common western grasshoppers. Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin (Wyoming Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull.) 912:1-25 + 68 pp.
9. Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1906. A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Montana, Yellowstone Park, Utah and Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 58:404
10. Slifer. 1943. The internal genitalia of some previously unstudied species of female Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology 72(2):227
11. Thomas, C. 1872. In Hayden. U.S. Geological Survey of Montana and Adjacent Territory 1871. Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions. Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress (Annual Report of Progress) 5:453
12. Thomas, C. 1878. On the Orthoptera collected by Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A., in Dakota and Montana during 1873-74. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Territ.) 4:484
13. Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The insects and arachnids of Canada 14:424