Species

Melanoplus herbaceus Bruner, 1893

Nomenclature (29)

Melanoplus herbaceus Bruner, 1893: 25.
Melanoplus herbaceus Bruner, 1893 in Townsend, 1893: 31.

Melanoplus herbaceus Bruner, 1893 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 127, Plate 27.
Melanoplus herbaceus Bruner, 1893 in Otte, 2025: 398, 399.

References (21)

Bruner, L. (1893) The more destructive locusts of America north of Mexico. Bulletin. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 28, 1–40. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=A3IqAAAAYAAJ
Bruner, L. (1908) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 249–342. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm

Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 249 pp.

Caudell, A.N. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of the single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64, 157–168. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17736#page/169/mode/1up

Caudell, A.N. (1902) A new species of Melanoplus from Arizona. The Canadian Entomologist, 34(7), 169–170. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88723#page/185/mode/1up

Caudell, A.N. (1903) Some new or unrecorded Orthoptera from Arizona. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 5(2), 162–166. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19613#page/180/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part II. A list of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Arizona with new records and corrections of the literature subsequent to 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61(3), 269–316. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4271_003#page/119/mode/1up

Otte, D. (2025) Melanoplus species of Baja California, Mexico (Acrididae, Melanoplinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 151(3), 393–426. https://doi.org/10.3157/061.151.0302

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1908) An orthopterological reconnaissance of the southwestern United States. Part I: Arizona. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 60, 365–402. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30138

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part II: New Mexico and western Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 111–175. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84740#page/119/mode/1up

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part III: California and Nevada. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 409–483. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26288106#page/417/mode/1up

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(1), 60–128. Available at http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca64acad/page/60/mode/2up

Rehn, J.A.G. (1904) Notes on Orthoptera from Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 562–575. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30096#page/612/mode/1up

Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Notes on Orthoptera from southern Arizona, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59, 24–81. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=DY9l7J6HxsAC

Rockwood, L.P. (1925) On night flying and attraction to light in Acridiidae and the relation of meteorological conditions thereto. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 2, 36–38. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225365#page/38/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell, T.D.A. (1902) A first list of the Orthoptera of New Mexico. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 9, 1–60. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88768#page/23/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. (1897) Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acrididae) with special reference to North American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 20(1124), 1–421. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/revisionoforthop00scudrich

Strohecker, H.F., Middlekauff, W.W. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1968) The grasshoppers of California (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 10, 1–177. Available at http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis10.pdf

Thompson, R.M. & Buxton, G.M. (1964) An index of the Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of California, with selected references. Occasional Papers of the Bureau of Entomology, 5, 1–62.

Tinkham, E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. The American Midland Naturalist, 40, 521–663. [1949]
Townsend, C.H.T. (1893) On the injurious and other locusts of New Mexico and Arizona. Insect Life, 6, 29–32. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/191483#page/41/mode/1up

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

"The Herbaceous Locust", the specimens were found upon various kinds of weeds and other low vegetation growing along the banks of the Rio Grande

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	3	4