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Species Melanoplus oklahomae - Oklahoma Spur-throat Grasshopper

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Melanoplinae (Spur-throated Grasshoppers)
Tribe Melanoplini
Genus Melanoplus
Species oklahomae (Oklahoma Spur-throat Grasshopper)
Explanation of Names
Melanoplus oklahomae Hebard, 1937
Range
endemic to se OK - Map - OSF
Remarks
Type locality: McCurtain Co., Oklahoma
Print References
Hebard. 1937. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 63: 171.
Hilliard, J.R., Jr. 2001. Two new grasshopper species in the Texanus group of the genus Melanoplus (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) with biological notes on the group. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 127(1): 31-68.
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