Species Melanoplus carnegiei - Carnegie Short-wing Grasshopper

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range

Brown grasshopper - Melanoplus carnegiei - male

Carnegi Short-wing Grasshopper - Melanoplus carnegiei - male

grasshopper - Melanoplus carnegiei - 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 carnegiei (Carnegie Short-wing Grasshopper)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Melanoplus carnegiei Morse, 1904. Type locality: Denmark, South Carolina

Melanoplus acidocercus Hebard, 1919. Type locality: Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia

Melanoplus carnegiei acidocercus (Hebard) Blatchley, 1920

The name acidocercis was applied to insects from southern Georgia, very near to where M. quercicola occurs, and it seems probable that they represent an intermediate condition between the two "species".

Identification

Tegmina slightly shorter than pronotum, with top edges usually touching or slightly overlapping, with tip narrowly rounded.

Hind femora with dark bars on top and (often faint) on outer sides.

Hind tibiae red.

Pronotum with median ridge developed for full length, with hind angle above obtuse-bluntly angled or rounded.

Male with cerci triangular, not much longer than width at base, with tips often dark; with furculae short and roughly wider at base than tip, shorter than abdominal segment in front of them.

M. scudderi is similar, wider-ranging, has male cerci a bit narrower and broader, rounder toward tip, and slightly curved up. Tegmina usually slightly longer than pronotum, with tips more acutely rounded.

Also very similar to Melanoplus quercicola, and M. davisi, which replace it to the south.

Range

North Carolina to Georgia

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 29 October, 2009 - 1:01am
Last updated 18 January, 2014 - 8:46pm

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