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Species

Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878

Kennicott's Grasshopper
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: male. (Otu).
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: male. (Otu).
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: male. (Otu).
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: male. (Otu).
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: female. (Otu).
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: female. (Otu).
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: female. (Otu).
Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: geographic distribution. (Otu).
CollectionObject 2765674; CNCI 311930, 0df154a8-80b8-4fc9-83f4-b2945decf4eb: Melanoplus kennicottii. Dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2765674; CNCI 311930, 0df154a8-80b8-4fc9-83f4-b2945decf4eb: Melanoplus kennicottii. Lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 2765674; CNCI 311930, 0df154a8-80b8-4fc9-83f4-b2945decf4eb: Melanoplus kennicottii. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (16)

  • Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878: 287, 289.

    Holotype; male; 474a9928-3794-4d18-a646-45af6fd8ecf9; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Tennessee: Lincoln: Yukon

  • Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878 in Scudder, 1896: 63.
  • Melanoplus kennicottii Scudder, 1878 in Storozhenko, 2023: 569.
  • Melanoplus rubicola [sic] Scudder, 1897 (misspelling of Podisma nubicola Scudder, 1897)

References (13)

  • Scudder, S.H. (1878) Remarks on Caloptenus and Melanoplus, with a notice of the species found in New England. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 19, 281–286. [1876] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130632#page/293/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1896) The Rocky Mountain Locust and its allies in Canada. Annual report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 26, 62–66.
  • 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
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) The species of the genus Melanoplus. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 36(154), 5–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31433#page/11/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
  • Chopard, L. (1928) La faune des Orthoptères des montagnes des Etats-Unis et ses rapports avec la faune paléarctique. In Contribution à l'étude du peuplement des hautes montagnes. Societé de Biogéographie, Paris. Vol. 2, 142–149. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64170790/f150.image
  • Hebard, M. (1928) The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 80, 211–306.
  • Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1986) The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, 14, 1–918. Available at http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/aac-aafc/agrhist/A42-42-1985-14-eng.pdf
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Vickery, V.R. (1997) Chapter 10. Orthopteroids (Orthopteroidea) of the Yukon. In Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada. 223–239 pp. Available at http://biologicalsurvey.ca/monographs/read/3
  • Haberski, A., Woller, D.A. & Sikes, D.S. (2021) Orthoptera of Alaska: A photographic key, new records, and synonymy of Melanoplus gordonae. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 44, 1–52. Available at http://biologicalsurvey.ca/ejournal/hws_44/cjai_2021_44.pdf
  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2023) Orthoptera of Northeast Asia and Northwest America. Zootaxa, 5264(4), 564–578.

Descendants and synonyms

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1056