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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 » Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper (Melanoplus keeleri)

Species Melanoplus keeleri - Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Habitat · Internet References · Works Cited
Unknown grasshopper - Melanoplus keeleri - female Grasshopper nymph - Melanoplus keeleri - female Grasshopper3 - Melanoplus keeleri - female nymph Keeler's Grasshopper - Melanoplus keeleri Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper Nymph - Melanoplus keeleri Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper Nymph - Melanoplus keeleri Melanoplus sp - Melanoplus keeleri - female Melanoplus keeleri - male
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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