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Subfamily Melanoplinae - Spur-throated Grasshoppers

 
 
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Melanoplus foxi Hebard, 1923 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae): Rediscovered After Almost 60 Years ...
By Derek A. Woller, Jovonn Hill
Transactions of the American Entomological Society 141: 545-57, 2015
full title: Melanoplus foxi Hebard, 1923 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae): Rediscovered After Almost 60 Years Using Historical Field Notes Connected to Curated Specimens
Full text (PDF)

Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier
By Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Basic Books, 2004
An interesting work that gives an extensive historical and social background on this species.
ISBN-13: 978-0738208947
A review is here.

Revision of the Genus Paraidemona Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Acrididae, Melanoplinae)
By Daniel Otte
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 2019
Pub found here

The First Record of Phaulotettix ablusus From The United States (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae)
By Tyler J. Hedlund, M. Jared Thomas and Sam W. Heads
Entomological News, 2023
Volume 130, Number 5, August 2023. Has not been published to BioOne yet, please contact Tyler Hedlund if you want a PDF copy.

Evolution, Diversification, and Biogeography of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
By Hojun Song, Ricardo Mariño-Pérez, Derek A Woller, Maria Marta Cigliano
Insect Systematics and Diversity, 2(4):3, 1-25, 2018
Full text (PDF available)

How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies
By Jacques R. Helfer
Wm. C. Brown Company, 1962
Part of the original Pictured Key Nature Series. I have only seen the 1962 original paperback. There was a 1987 Dover reprint, apparently of the 1972 (2nd) edition.
Covers grasshoppers, termites, cockroaches, and mantids. Has 540 good black-and-white illustrations. Though somewhat dated, has more thorough coverage of some groups (e.g., Pygmy Grasshoppers, Tetrigidae) than more recent popular guides. Worth finding if you are interested in orthoptera.

The 1987 Dover reprint of the 2nd edition includes a new preface, new footnotes, new illustrations, treatment of crickets, and a

Grasshoppers (Acrididae) of Colorado: identification, biology and management
By John L. Capinera, T. S. Sechrist
Colorado State University Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 584S, 1982

Synopsis of Orthoptera (sensu lato) of Alabama
By Matt E. Dakin, Jr., and Kirby L. Hays
Auburn University Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, No. 404, 1970
Keys to at least most of the latent sense Orthoptera in Alabama (includes Blattodea, Mantodea, Phasmida, etc).

https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/2343

 
 
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