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Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861)

Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861): female. (Otu).
Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861): Fig. 63. head and pronotum, dorsal view. (Otu).
Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861): Fig. 84. male cercus, lateral view. (Otu).
Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861): Fig. 94. apex of subgenital plate of male. (Otu).
Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861): Fig. 56. mesosternum (cl - caudolateral lobes). (Otu).

Nomenclature (32)

  • Pezotettix mexicana Saussure, 1861: 160.

    Syntype; male; e5bef837-9b06-4661-9203-b8cceed0939a; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Mexico: Oaxaca. Syntype; female; 422fcb0c-77e1-49fe-8d75-f56063359e3f; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Mexico: Oaxaca

  • Caloptenus [sic] selectus Walker, 1870: 682.
  • Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861) in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Buzzetti, Méndez-Gómez & Horta-Vega, 2013: 230.
  • Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861) in Fontana, Buzzetti, Mariño-Pérez, Castellanos-Vargas, Monge-Rodríguez & Cano-Santana, 2017: 138.

References (30)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1861) Orthoptera nova americana (Diagnoses praeliminares). II. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, 2(13), 126–130, 156–164, 313–324, 397–402. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20623#page/138/mode/1up
  • Walker, F. (1870) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 4, 605–809 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci04britrich
  • Thomas, C. (1873) Part II: Acrididae of North America not found in the United States. In Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Invertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 5, pp. 191–262. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18502#page/207/mode/1up
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • Hebard, M. (1928) The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 80, 211–306.
  • Faure, J.C. (1933) The phases of the Rocky Mountain locust Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure). Journal of Economic Entomology, 26, 706–718.
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • 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
  • Smith, D.S. & Northcott, F.E. (1942) The effect of feeding wheat with different nitrogen content on Melanoplus mexicanus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Manitoba, 5, 9–10.
  • Cantrall, I.J. (1943) The ecology of the Orthoptera and Dermaptera of the George Reserve, Michigan. Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 54, 1–184. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56299
  • Severin, H.C. (1943) A study of a gynandromorphof Melanoplus mexicanus mexicanus (Sauss.). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 51, 179–182, 1 pl.
  • Pfadt, R.E. (1949) Food plants as factors in the ecology of the Lesser Migratory Grasshopper, Melanoplus mexicanus (Sauss.). Bulletin of the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station, 290, 51 pp.
  • Smith, D.S. & Northcott, F.E. (1949) The effect of feeding different barley varieties on Melanoplus mexicanus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Manitoba, 5, 9.
  • Smith, D.S. (1950) A study of some of the effects of the certain food plants on the grasshopper, Melanoplus mexicanus (Sauss.) (Orthoptera: Acrididae). 18th Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ontario, 14–16. [1949]
  • Smith, D.S. & Northcott, F.E. (1951) The effects on the grasshopper Melanoplus mexicanus mexicanus (Sauss.) (Orthoptera: Acrid.) of varying the nitrogen content of its food. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 29, 297–304.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1952) Some records of Alaskan Acridoidea (Orthoptera). Entomological News, 63(2), 29–33. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20188#page/411/mode/1up
  • Smith, D.S., Handford, R.H. & Chefurka, W. (1952) Some effect of various food plants on Melanoplus mexicanus mexicanus (Sauss.) (Orthoptera: Acrididae). The Canadian Entomologist, 84, 113–117.
  • Scharff, D.K. (1954) The role of food plants and weather in the ecology of Melanoplus mexicanus mexicanus (Sauss.). Journal of Economic Entomology, 47, 485–489.
  • Severin, H.C. (1955) A gynandromoprh of Melanoplus mexicanus mexicanus (Saussure), extreme migratory phase (Orth.; Acrididae). Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 62(3), 104–107.
  • Gurney, A.B. & Brooks, A.R. (1959) Grasshoppers of the Mexicanus Group, genus Melanoplus (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 110, 1–93. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53298#page/9/mode/1up
  • Gurney, A.B. (1962) On the name of the migratory grasshopper of the United States and Canada, Melanoplus sanguinipes (F.) (Orthoptera; Acrididae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 75, 189–192. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107533#page/555/mode/1up
  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M. & Mariño-Pérez, R. (2008) Chapulines, Langostas, Grillos y Esperanzas de México. Guía fotográfica - Grasshoppers, Locusts, Crickets & Katydids of Mexico. Photographic guide. World Biodiversity Association, Verona, Italy, 1–272 pp. Available at http://biodiversityassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Grasshoppers-Locusts-Crickets-Katydids-Of-Mexico.pdf
  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Medina, R.F. & Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y. (2009) Contribution to geographic distribution of some Mexican Melanoplinae and description of a new species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 18(1), 37–50. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/034.018.0101
  • Hollier, J.A. (2012) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, part 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 119(3), 303–339. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/185629#page/47/mode/1up
  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y. & Horta-Vega, J.V. (2013) Two new species of Melanoplus Stål, 1873 (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) from northeastern Mexico. Zootaxa, 3669(3), 261–286.
  • Barrientos-Lozano, L., Rocha-Sánchez, A.Y., Buzzetti, F.M., Méndez-Gómez, B.R. & Horta-Vega, J.V. (2013) Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada. Ciudad de México, 388 pp.
  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Mariño-Pérez, R., Castellanos-Vargas, I., Monge-Rodríguez, S. & Cano-Santana, Z. (2017) Ortópteros de Oaxaca. Orthopterans of Oaxaca. WBA Handbooks 8, Verona, 1–212 pp.

Descendants and synonyms

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Etymology:

Named after distribution in Mexico.

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