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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae)

Subfamily Melanoplinae - Spur-throated Grasshoppers

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Linear-winged Grasshopper - Aptenopedes sphenarioides - male Grasshopper on Spider Lily Pictured G-hopper - Dactylotum bicolor Melanoplus 03b - Melanoplus bivittatus - female Mating Differential Grasshoppers - Melanoplus differentialis Melanoplus bowditchi - male Her final scene - Melanoplus differentialis - female Grasshopper - Melanoplus pictus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Melanoplinae (Spur-throated Grasshoppers)
Other Common Names
Spurthroats, Spurthroated Grasshoppers
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Often considered part of Cyrtacanthacridinae. Orthoptera Species File Online lists as a separate subfamily: Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897.
Explanation of Names
Author of subfamily is Scudder, 1897.
See Also
Cyrtacanthacridinae - Migratory Bird Locusts
Contributed by Richard Leung on 11 March, 2005 - 6:44pm
Additional contributions by cotinis
Last updated 6 March, 2007 - 12:17pm

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