Yellowish spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus flavidus)

Melanoplus flavidus
Other common names
Blue-legged locust, Bluelegged grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Melanoplinae
Tribe:	Melanoplini
Genus:	Melanoplus
Scientific name
Melanoplus flavidus Scudder, 1878
Geography
Native countries:
Canada United States
Traits
Diet:	Forbs

The Yellowish spur-throat grasshopper (Melanoplus flavidus) is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File

Identification

Identification 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
The grasshoppers of Nebraska	Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,Mathew L. Brust, Wyatt Hoback and Robert J. Wright	2009		View URL
Montana.gov Orthoptera Field Guides				View URL
Grasshoppers of the Western United States	United States Department of Agriculture			View URL
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

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceMelanoplus flavidus

Habitat

Herbicole

Activity

Diurnal

Sound

Silent

Flight

Strong flier

Associated organizations

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
NatureServe Explorer				View 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
The grasshoppers of Nebraska	Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service,Mathew L. Brust, Wyatt Hoback and Robert J. Wright	2009		View URL
Montana.gov Orthoptera Field Guides				View URL
Grasshoppers of the Western United States	United States Department of Agriculture			View URL
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.

• Carlos Gerardo Velazco-Macías — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

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

• Tyler Grant — 4 specimens identified
• Elliott Gordon — 1 specimen identified
• Carlos Gerardo Velazco-Macías — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

Biota Information System of New MexicoBugGuideCatalogue of LifeCONABIOEncyclopedia of LifeGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistInsects (Insecta) of the WorldIRMNGITIS TSNMontana Field GuideNatureServe ExplorerNCBI taxonomyOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new)UMLS CUI