Pasture spur-throated grasshopper (Melanoplus confusus)
| Melanoplus confusus | |
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| Other common names | |
| Little pasture locust | |
| Taxonomic classification | |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Melanoplinae |
| Tribe: | Melanoplini |
| Genus: | Melanoplus |
| Scientific name | |
| Melanoplus confusus Scudder, 1897 | |
| Geography | |
| Native countries: | |
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Taxonomy
Identification
Identification resources
| Title | Author(s) | Year | Geographic purview | URL |
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| A Manual of the Grasshoppers of New Mexico | New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service,D.B. Richman, D.C. Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland and DJ. Ferguson | 1993 | View URL | |
| Orthoptera of Northern Great Plains | North Dakota State University | 2007 | ||
| Hopper helper | Wendal Cushing | View URL | ||
| The grasshoppers of Nebraska | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,Mathew L. Brust, Wyatt Hoback and Robert J. Wright | 2009 | View URL | |
| Field guide to some of the common grasshoppers of the Front Range of Colorado | University of Colorado | View URL | ||
| Montana.gov Orthoptera Field Guides | View URL | |||
| Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers | United States Department of Agriculture,Robert E. Pfadt | 2002 | ||
| Grasshoppers of the Western United States | United States Department of Agriculture | View URL | ||
| ARS grasshopper species fact sheets | Agricultural Research Services and United States Department of Agriculture | 1994 | ||
| The Grasshoppers of the Western U.S. Lucid mobile app | APHIS PPQ Science & Technology Insect Management and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (Phoenix Station), United States Department of Agriculture and Center for Plant Health Science and Technology of the USDA | 2016 |
Distribution
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Habitat and ecology
Land-use change
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Resources
| Title | Author(s) | Year | Geographic purview | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Manual of the Grasshoppers of New Mexico | New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service,D.B. Richman, D.C. Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland and DJ. Ferguson | 1993 | View URL | |
| Orthoptera of Northern Great Plains | North Dakota State University | 2007 | ||
| Hopper helper | Wendal Cushing | View URL | ||
| The grasshoppers of Nebraska | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,Mathew L. Brust, Wyatt Hoback and Robert J. Wright | 2009 | View URL | |
| Field guide to some of the common grasshoppers of the Front Range of Colorado | University of Colorado | View URL | ||
| Montana.gov Orthoptera Field Guides | View URL | |||
| Field Guide to Common Western Grasshoppers | United States Department of Agriculture,Robert E. Pfadt | 2002 | ||
| Grasshoppers of the Western United States | United States Department of Agriculture | View URL | ||
| ARS grasshopper species fact sheets | Agricultural Research Services and United States Department of Agriculture | 1994 | ||
| The Grasshoppers of the Western U.S. Lucid mobile app | APHIS PPQ Science & Technology Insect Management and Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory (Phoenix Station), United States Department of Agriculture and Center for Plant Health Science and Technology of the USDA | 2016 |
Specimen contributors
Collected by
- Alfred Satterthwait — 2 specimen(s) collected
- Oliver Keller — 1 specimen(s) collected
- Mark Rosenstein — 1 specimen(s) collected
Identified by
- Tyler Grant — 6 identification(s)