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Subspecies Melanoplus bivittatus femoratus

grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - male

Two-Striped Grasshoppers? - Melanoplus bivittatus

Two-Striped Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - female

Little Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - male

Grasshopper - Melanoplus bivittatus - female

Red-legged Grasshopper? - Melanoplus bivittatus - 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 bivittatus (Two-striped Grasshopper)

Subspecies femoratus (Melanoplus bivittatus femoratus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Caloptenus femoratus Burmeister, 1838, described from Carolina

Melanoplus femoratus (Burmeister) Scudder, 1878

Melanoplus bivittatus ssp. femoratus (Burmeister) Morse, 1894

Acridium flavovittatum Harris, 1841, described from Massachusetts

Caloptenus flavovittatus (Harris) Walker, F., 1870

Melanoplus flavovittatus (Harris) Scudder, 1874

Acridium milberti Serville, 1839, from northern America

Melanoplus milberti (Serville) Scudder, 1897

Heteracris rejecta Walker, 1870, no type locality

Heteracris vittipes Walker, 1870, no type locality

Identification

See dicussion under species heading.

Range

See dicussion under species heading.

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 15 September, 2013 - 12:25am
Last updated 15 September, 2013 - 1:22pm

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