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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Melanoplus dodgei (Thomas, 1871)

Nomenclature (16)

  • Caloptenus [sic] dodgei Thomas, 1871: 168.

    Holotype; male; dc6e833f-4c42-4c74-9265-9a6e78bcb13e; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Colorado: El Paso: Pikes Peak

  • Pezotettix aspirans Scudder, 1878: 85.

    Syntypes (n= 2); male; 648d9e2e-44bd-424e-a2ca-c088fcebb41d; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado: El Paso: above timber on Pike's Peak. Syntypes (n= 2); female; 69387205-b91c-48ed-a85e-9af76e28286c; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado: El Paso: above timber on Pike's Peak

  • Melanoplus dodgei (Thomas, 1871) in Vickery & Kevan, 1986: 392.
  • Melanoplus incultus Scudder, 1899 (synonym of Caloptenus [sic] dodgei Thomas, 1871) in Otte, 1995: 377.

References (15)

  • Thomas, C. (1871) On a new grasshopper from Colorado. The Canadian Entomologist, 3(9), 168. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26369#page/178/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1878) A Century of Orthoptera, Decades VIII, IX and X. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 20, 63–95. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/130654#page/81/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
  • Scudder, S.H. (1899) Supplement to a revision of the Melanopli. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 7, 157–205. [1897] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50099#page/175/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1901) Alphabetical index to North American Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 6, 1–436. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31824#page/15/mode/1up
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1906) A contribution to the knowledge of the Orthoptera of Montana, Yellowstone Park, Utah and Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 58, 358–418. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30129
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • 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
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1920) Orthoptera of northeastern America with special reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, 781 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16768
  • Hebard, M. (1927) Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 79, 1–11.
  • 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. (1929) The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 303–425.
  • Van Horn, D. (1965) Variations in size and phallic morphology among populations of Melanoplus dodgei (Thomas) in the Colorado Front Range. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 91, 95–119.
  • 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.

Descendants and synonyms

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