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Melanoplus occidentalis
| Description | Melanoplus occidentalis, the flabellate grasshopper, is a species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in North America. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoplus_occidentalis, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Acrididae : Melanoplus : Melanoplus occidentalis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Generic Name | Melanoplus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Melanoplus occidentalis (C.Thomas, 1872) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Thomas, C. 1872. In Hayden. U.S. Geological Survey of Montana and Adjacent Territory 1871. Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions. Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress (Annual Report of Progress) 5:423-466, 2 pls. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type Specimen | [?] [?] (Thomas, 1872) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Designated By | Hebard. 1927. Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 79:1-11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type Information Source | Orthoptera Species File | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Flabellate Grasshopper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanoplus_occidentalis |
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Melanoplus flabellar brevipennis L.Bruner, 1904 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Acrididae : Melanoplus : Melanoplus flabellar brevipennis |
| Melanoplus flabellifer Scudder & S.H., 1878 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Acrididae : Melanoplus : Melanoplus flabellifer |
| Melanoplus variolosus Scudder & S.H., 1878 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Acrididae : Melanoplus : Melanoplus variolosus |
| Melanoplus occidentalis brevipennis L.Bruner, 1904 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Acrididae : Melanoplus : Melanoplus occidentalis brevipennis |
| Caloptenus occidentalis C.Thomas, 1872 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Acrididae : Melanoplus : Caloptenus occidentalis |
| Melanoplus flabellifer brevipennis L.Bruner, 1904 | GBIF | subspecies | Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Orthoptera : Acrididae : Melanoplus : Melanoplus flabellifer brevipennis |
References
| Hebard. 1928. The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 80:277 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The insects and arachnids of Canada 14:424 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States, Cornell University Press, Ithaca 130, Plate 27 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Hebard. 1927. Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 79:8 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Hebard. 1929. The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 81:386 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Pfadt. 1988. Field guide to common western grasshoppers. Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin (Wyoming Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull.) 912:1-25 + 68 pp. - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1906. A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Montana, Yellowstone Park, Utah and Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad.) 58:404 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Thomas, C. 1872. In Hayden. U.S. Geological Survey of Montana and Adjacent Territory 1871. Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions. Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress (Annual Report of Progress) 5:453 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Bruner, L. 1893. A list of Nebraska Orthoptera. Publications of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (Publ. Nebraska Acad. Sci.) 3:28 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Caudell. 1903. Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus.) 26:803 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Slifer. 1943. The internal genitalia of some previously unstudied species of female Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology 72(2):227 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Thomas, C. 1878. On the Orthoptera collected by Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A., in Dakota and Montana during 1873-74. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Territ.) 4:484 - via Orthoptera Species File |
| Bruner, L. (1893) A list of Nebraska Orthoptera: Publications of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (Publ. Nebraska Acad. Sci.) 3:19-33 - via Catalogue of Life |
| Thomas, C. In Hayden (1872) Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions In Hayden: Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress (Annual Report of Progress) 5:423-466, 2 pls. - via Catalogue of Life |
| Otte, Daniel, 1995: Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File 4. 518. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
