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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 » Smith's Short-wing Grasshopper (Melanoplus mancus)

Species Melanoplus mancus - Smith's Short-wing Grasshopper

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Internet References
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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 mancus (Smith's Short-wing Grasshopper)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pezotettix manca Smith, 1868. Type locality: Stoneham, Maine
Melanoplus mancus (Smith) S.H. Scudder 1897
Identification
Male cerci
Range
New England, north from New Jersey & Pennsylvania. Probably also found in adjacent Canada.
Habitat
Open areas in woodland, usually where there is some shrubby ground cover like Vaccinium
Remarks
A member of the Mancus Group, which also includes celatus, islandicus, divergens, & serrulatus. Differs in distribution and details of male furculae and cercae.
Internet References
OSF
Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 9 September, 2009 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by Denis Doucet, metrioptera, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 31 October, 2022 - 9:37am

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