Melanoplus

Melanoplus


Melanoplus
Red-legged grasshopper, Melanoplus femurrubrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Melanoplinae
Genus: Melanoplus
Stål, 1873
Species

Many, see text

Melanoplus is a large genus of grasshoppers. They are the typical large grasshoppers (and in some cases migratory "locusts") in North America. A common name is spurthroat grasshoppers (or "spur-throated grasshoppers"), but this more typically refers members of the related subfamily Catantopinae.

The largest grasshoppers of this genus can reach nearly two inches (5 cm) in length, but most are smaller. Some are intricately patterned and colorful, others are drab.

Melanoplus eat grasses of all kinds, as well as leafy and grassy agricultural crops and garden plants. They feed on the leaves, and sometimes fruit, flowers, and buds, as well as tree bark. Many of the more notable agricultural pest grasshoppers belong here, including the Rocky Mountain locust, the most significant insect pest of the 19th-century Great Plains, but now extinct.[1]

Selected species

New species are often being discovered and described in this genus where speciation runs rampant in isolated areas, involving speciation by hybridization.

  • Melanoplus adelogyrusVolusia grasshopper
  • Melanoplus alpinusalpine grasshopper
  • Melanoplus angustipennisnarrow-winged sand grasshopper
  • Melanoplus bivittatustwo-striped grasshopper
  • Melanoplus borealisnorthern spurthroat grasshopper
  • Melanoplus bowditchisagebrush grasshopper
  • Melanoplus bruneriBruner spurthroat grasshopper
  • Melanoplus confususpasture grasshopper
  • Melanoplus dawsoniiDawson grasshopper
  • Melanoplus devastatordevastating grasshopper
  • Melanoplus differentialisdifferential grasshopper
  • Melanoplus femurrubrumred-legged grasshopper
  • Melanoplus foedusstriped sand grasshopper
  • Melanoplus gladstoniGladston grasshopper
  • Melanoplus infantilislittle spurthroat grasshopper
  • Melanoplus keeleriKeeler's spurthroat grasshopper
  • Melanoplus kennicottiKennicott grasshopper
  • Melanoplus lakinusLakin grasshopper
  • Melanoplus ludivinae Fontana, Buzzetti & Marino-Perez, 2011[2]
  • Melanoplus mixes Fontana, Buzzetti & Marino-Perez, 2011[2]
  • Melanoplus oaxacae Fontana, Buzzetti & Marino-Perez, 2011[2]
  • Melanoplus occidentalisflabellate grasshopper
  • Melanoplus packardiiPackard grasshopper
  • Melanoplus punctulatuspine tree spurthroat grasshopper
  • Melanoplus rugglesiNevada sage grasshopper
  • Melanoplus sanguinipesmigratory grasshopper
  • Melanoplus scudderiScudder's short-winged grasshopper
  • Melanoplus spretusRocky Mountain locust (extinct: 1902)
  • Melanoplus viridipesgreen-legged grasshopper
Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus)


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Footnotes

  1. ^ Samways & Lockwood (1998)
  2. ^ a b c Fontana, Buzetti & Marino-Perez (2011)

References

  • Cranshaw, Whitney (2004): Garden Insects of North America: the ultimate guide to backyard bugs. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09561-2
  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., & Marino-Perez, R. (2011). New Acrididae from Oaxaca State in Mexico (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae: Ommatolampinae, Melanoplinae). Zootaxa 2862: 39-55.
  • Samways, M.J. & Lockwood, J.A. (1998): Orthoptera conservation: pests and paradoxes. Journal of Insect Conservation 2(3-4): 143149. doi:10.1023/A:1009652016332 (HTML abstract)

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