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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 » Rocky Mountain Locust (Melanoplus spretus)
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Rocky Mountain Locust--terminal appendages of male - Melanoplus spretus - male
Copyright © 2010 public domain--published 1898

Rocky Mountain Locust--terminal appendages of male - Melanoplus spretus - Male
An illustration of the male terminal appendages of Melanoplus spretus.
Source:
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard (1898). Revision of the orthopteran group Melanopli (Acridiidae), with special reference to North American forms. Proc. US National Museum 20: 1-421 (Biodiversity Heritage Libary--publication, plate 12, caption).
The caption to that plate states that the specimen was collected in "Salt Lake Valley, Utah".

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Rocky Mountain Locust--terminal appendages of male - Melanoplus spretus - male Rocky Mountain Locust--terminal appendages of male - Melanoplus spretus - male
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Contributed by Cotinis on 28 March, 2010 - 10:32pm
Last updated 22 July, 2012 - 11:50am

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