North American spur-throated grasshoppers
(Melanoplus spp.)
Overview • Description • Distribution • Taxonomy
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Description |
Adults can be small to relatively large, and may be brown, green, gray, or yellow. All have a spur below between the bases of their front legs. The top of the head is rounded in profile. The face is vertical or only slightly slanted. There is usually a dark stripe behind each compound eye that continues on the upper plate covering the thorax (pronotum). The pronotum is broadly convex above and is often slightly ridged. |
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Taxonomy |
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Order |
Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids) |
Suborder |
Caelifera (grasshoppers, locusts, and allies) |
Infraorder |
Acrididea (grasshoppers) |
Superfamily |
Acridoidea (short-horned grasshoppers and locusts) |
Family |
Acrididae (short-horned grasshoppers) |
Subfamily |
Melanoplinae (spur-throated grasshoppers) |
Tribe |
Melanoplini |
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Bruner’s spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus bruneri) Dawson’s grasshopper (Melanoplus dawsoni) differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis) flabellate grasshopper (Melanoplus occidentalis) forest locust (Melanoplus islandicus) Gladston’s spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus gladstoni) graceful grasshopper (Melanoplus gracilis) green-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus viridipes) green-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus viridipes-species-group) huckleberry grasshopper (Melanoplus fasciatus) Huron short-wing grasshopper (Melanoplus huroni) Keeler’s spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus keeleri-luridus) little spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus infantilis) migratory grasshopper (Melanoplus sanguinipes) narrow-winged spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus angustipennis) northern spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus borealis) Packard’s grasshopper (Melanoplus packardii) pasture grasshopper (Melanoplus confusus) pine tree spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus punctulatus-griseus) ponderous spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus ponderosus) red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum) Scudder’s short-wing grasshopper (Melanoplus scudderi) Stone’s grasshopper (Melanoplus stonei) striped sand grasshopper (Melanoplus foedus) two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) Walsh’s short-wing grasshopper (Melanoplus walshii) Yarrow’s grasshopper (Melanoplus yarrowii) yellowish spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus flavidus) |
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Common Names |
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North American spur-throated grasshoppers |
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Glossary
Pronotum
The exoskeletal plate on the upper side of the first segment of the thorax of an insect.
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