The Pasture spur-throated grasshopper (Melanoplus confusus) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

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Taxonomy

*Melanoplus confusus*
Melanoplus confusus
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:
	Canada; United States;

Identification

Identification resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	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

Distribution

Biology

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Melanoplus confusus
Melanoplus confusus
Melanoplus confusus
Melanoplus confusus

Habitat and ecology

Land-use change

Pest status

Management

Outbreaks

Outbreak media coverage

Associated organizations

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	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 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.

Alfred Satterthwait — 2 specimens collected
Oliver Keller — 1 specimen collected
Mark Rosenstein — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

Tyler Grant — 6 specimens identified

References