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Melanoplus spiracor Woller & Kelly, 2025

Nomenclature (1)

  • Melanoplus spiracor Woller & Kelly, 2025 in Woller, 2025: 290.

    Holotype; male; UCFC 0 577 316; deposited at: University of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods (UCFC); United States: Florida: Hillsborough: Little Manatee River State Park, slightly NE of park entrance off of Lightfoot Rd.

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Woller, D.A. (2025) Three new grasshopper species in the Florida Melanoplus Puer group (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Zootaxa, 5631(2), 269–307. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.2.3

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Combination of the Latin words for “coil” (spira) and “heart” (cor) because the shape of the ventral valves of the aedeagus strongly resembles a spiraling heart.

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