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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Kennicott's Spur-throat Grasshopper (Melanoplus kennicottii)

Species Melanoplus kennicottii - Kennicott's Spur-throat Grasshopper

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range
Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - female Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - female Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - male Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - male Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - male Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - male Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - female Melanoplus kennicotti - Melanoplus kennicottii - female
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 kennicottii (Kennicott's Spur-throat Grasshopper)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder 1878. Type locality: Souris River, Assinobia (Saskatchewan) and Yukon River.
Podisma nubicola Scudder 1897. Type locality: Mount Lincoln, Park County, Colorado.
Melanoplus kennicotti nubicola (Scudder) Hebard 1928
Range
Inland and Rocky Mountains; from Yukon & Northwest Territories through and Alberta, southward to central Colorado; with outliers in suitable habitats on Great Plains northwestward from Wyoming and South Dakota.
Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 30 January, 2020 - 1:58pm

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