Green-legged spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus viridipes)

Melanoplus viridipes
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Melanoplinae
Tribe:	Melanoplini
Genus:	Melanoplus
Scientific name
Melanoplus viridipes Scudder, 1897
Geography
Native countries:
Canada United States

The Green-legged spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus viridipes) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

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Identification

Identification resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
The Orthoptera of Michigan	Roger G. Bland	2003		View URL

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceMelanoplus viridipes

Habitat

Herbicole

Activity

Diurnal

Sound

Silent

Associated organizations

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
The Orthoptera of Michigan	Roger G. Bland	2003		View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Carl Otto Mohr — 21 specimens collected
• Barnard Burks — 18 specimens collected
• Theodore Henry Frison — 7 specimens collected

• Mark Rosenstein — 3 specimens collected
• William Kuhn — 2 specimens collected
• Brandon Corder — 2 specimens collected
• Kenneth Auden — 1 specimen collected
• Zachary Dankowicz — 1 specimen collected
• Graham Montgomery — 1 specimen collected
• John Abrams — 1 specimen collected
• cassi saari — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Tyler Grant — 13 specimens identified
• William Kuhn — 2 specimens identified
• Brandon Corder — 2 specimens identified

• Zachary Dankowicz — 1 specimen identified
• John Abrams — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

CalPhotosCatalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldITIS TSNNatureServe ExplorerOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)