Species Booneacris glacialis - Wingless Mountain Grasshopper

Pezotettix glacialis S.H. Scudder, 1862. Described from top of Mt. Madison, White Mountains, New Hampshire

Podisma glacialis (Scudder) Walker, 1871

Podisma variegata S.H. Scudder, 1897. Described from Ithaca, New York

Podisma glacialis canadensis Walker, 1903. Described from North Bay, eastern Ontario

Zubovskya glacialis (Scudder) Rehn & Rehn, 1936

Zubovskya glacialis canadensis (Walker) Rehn & Rehn, 1936

Podisma glacialis amplicerca Caudell, 1936. Described from "Camp Todd to Big Bald Knob", Augusta County, Virginia

Podisma glacialis variegata Caudell, 1936

Booneacris glacialis canadensis Rehn & Randal, 1962

Booneacris glacialis (Scudder) Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan, 1985

Booneacris glacialis amplicerca (Caudell) Otte, 1995

Booneacris glacialis variegata (Caudell) Otte, 1995

Booneacris variegata (Caudell) G. Litzenberger & W. Chapco, 2003

The subspecies variegatus, occurring from Ontario and New England, south to North Carolina, with longer antennae and hind femur banded dark, is treated as a distinct species by some authors. However, those distinctions seem unreliable and not constant, and the distinction seems unwarranted. However, further study may show that indeed there are more than one eastern species of Booneacris.

Totally wingless spurthoat Grasshopper; usually greenish; with face nearly vertical. Found in northeast.

Very closely akin, and similar to Dendrotettix, Appalachia, and perhaps Melanoplus viridipes, but those all have at least short wings.

Minnesota and western Ontario east to New Brunswick, Maine, and New Hampshire, and south through the Appalachians.