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Species Melanoplus keeleri - Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper

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Acrididae - Melanoplus keeleri - male - female Melanoplus keeleri - male Melanoplus keeleri - male Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper Nymph - Melanoplus keeleri Melanoplus keeleri? - Melanoplus keeleri - male Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper - Melanoplus keeleri Melanoplus keeleri Acrididae, lateral - Melanoplus keeleri - 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 keeleri (Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper)

Other Common Names

Keeler Grasshopper, Keeler's Spur-throat

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Melanoplus keeleri Thomas, 1874

Identification

Male cerci are distinctive, "bifurcate with the dorsal arm larger than the ventral"

More at the references below.

Range

Throughout most of North America east of the Rocky Mountains (1)

Habitat

pasture and open woods (1)

Internet References

Fact sheet from Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station
OSF

Works Cited

1.Grasshoppers of Florida (Invertebrates of Florida)
John L. Capinera, Clay W. Scherer, Jason M. Squiter, Jason M. Squitier. 2002. University Press of Florida.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 31 January, 2006 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, metrioptera, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 31 October, 2022 - 9:36am

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