Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
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
Explanation of Names
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.
Identification
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.
Range
Minnesota and western Ontario east to New Brunswick, Maine, and New Hampshire, and south through the Appalachians.
