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subfamily

Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897

Type

Melanoplus Stål, 1873 type genus of Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897

Nomenclature (42)

  • Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 in Scudder, 1896
  • Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897
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  • Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 in Song, Mariño-Pérez, Woller & Cigliano, 2018: 16.
  • Melanoplinae Scudder, 1897 in Scattolini, Lira Noriega & Cigliano, 2020

Nomenclature references (38)

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  • Amédégnato, C. (1977) Étude des Acridoidea centre et sud américains (Catantopinae sensu lato). Anatomie des genitalia, classification, répartition, phylogénie. These, Université Pierre te Marie Curie, Paris pp. 385 pp. Université Pierre te Marie Curie, Paris, pp. 385 pp.
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  • Amédégnato, C., Chapco, W. & Litzenberger, G. (2003) Out of South America? Additional evidence for a southern origin of melanopline grasshoppers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 29(1), 115–119. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790303000745
  • Brusven, M.A. (1972) Differentiation and ecology of common Catantopinae and Cyrtacanthacridinae nymphs (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of Idaho and adjacent areas. Melanderia, 9, 1–31.
  • Cadena-Castañeda, O.J. & Cardona, J.M. (2015) Introducción a los Saltamontes de Colombia (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididea: Acridomorpha, Tetrigoidea & Tridactyloidea). 1–534 pp.
  • Cantrall, I.J. & Cohn, T.J. (1974) Melanoploid genitalia and mechanical isolation. In Proceedings of the International Study Conference on the Current and Future Problems of Acridology 1970. London. 35–44 pp.
  • Chapco, W. & Guenther, S.J. (1998) An examination of the phylogenetic utility of taxonomic traits in melanopline grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 74(3), 150–156. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/252178#page/160/mode/1up
  • Chapco, W., Kelln, R.A. & McFadyen, D.A. (1994) Mitochondrial DNA variation in North American melanopline grasshoppers. Heredity, 72(1), 1–9.
  • Chapco, W., Litzenberger, G. & Kuperus, W.R. (2001) A molecular biogeographic analysis of the relationship between North American melanoploid grasshoppers and their Eurasian and South American relatives. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 18(3), 460–466. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790300909023
  • Chintauan-Marquier, I.C., Jordan, S., Berthier, P., Amédégnato, C. & Pompanon, F. (2011) Evolutionary history and taxonomy of a short-horned grasshopper subfamily: The Melanoplinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 58, 22–32. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790310003015
  • Defaut, B. & Morichon, D. (2015) Criquets de France (Orthoptera, Caelifera). In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 97, Issue 1a,b, 695 pp. + XXI plates.
  • Hebard, M. (1931) Die Ausbeute der deutschen Chaco-Expedition 1925-26. Orthoptera. Konowia, Zeitschrift für Systematische Insektenkunde, 10(4), 257–285. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/KON_10_0257-0285.pdf
  • Hunter, S.J. & Sutton, W.S. (1900) The Melanopli of Kansas. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 9, 63, 64, 76, 77, 89–90. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42922#page/77/mode/1up
  • Jiang, G. & Zheng, Z.-M. (1998) In Grasshoppers and Locusts from Guangxi. Guangxi Normal University. 390 pp.
  • Johnson, D.L. (2002) Spur-throated grasshoppers of the Canadian prairies and northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands, 8, 16–25. Available at http://www.sidney.ars.usda.gov/grasshopper/ID_Tools/nat_guides/spurthgh.pdf
  • Knowles, L.L. & Otte, D. (2000) Phylogenetic analysis of montane grasshoppers from western North America (genus Melanoplus, Acrididae: Melanoplinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 93(3), 421–431.
  • Kuperus, W.R. & Chapco, W. (1994) Usefulness of internal transcribed spacer regions of ribosomal DNA in melanopline (Orthoptera: Acrididae) systematics. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 87(6), 751–754.
  • Li, H. & Xia, K.-L. (2006) Orthoptera, Acridoidea, Catantopidae. Fauna Sinica, Insecta, 43.
  • Litzenberger, G. & Chapco, W. (2003) The North American Melanoplinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae): A molecular phylogenetic study of their origins and taxonomic relationships. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 96(4), 491–497.
  • McNeill, J. (1899) Arkansas Melanopli I. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 8(275), 332–334. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44238#page/368/mode/1up
  • McNeill, J. (1899) Arkansas Melanopli II. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 8(276), 343–346. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44238#page/379/mode/1up
  • McNeill, J. (1899) Arkansas Melanopli III. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 8(278), 366–371. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44238#page/418/mode/1up
  • Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Randell, R.L. (1963) A preliminary analysis of the lines of the super-tribe Melanoplini (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 115, 1–32. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5Y5x8Zew67EC
  • Richman, D.B., Lightfoot, D.C., Sutherland, C.A. & Ferguson, J.W.H. (1993) A manual of the grasshoppers of New Mexico, Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae. New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service Handbook, 7, 1–112. Available at http://nmsu.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/AgCircs/id/63174
  • Roberts, H.R. (1941) A comparative study of the subfamilies of the Acrididae (Orthoptera) primarily on the basis of their phallic structures. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 93, 201–246.
  • Rowell, C.H.F. (2013) In The Grasshoppers (Caelifera) of Costa Rica and Panama. The Orthopterists' Society. 611 pp.
  • Scattolini, M.C., Lira Noriega, A. & Cigliano, M.M. (2020) Species richness, range size, and wing development in South American melanopline grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Ecological Entomology, 45, 840–853.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1896) The New England Melanopli. Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, 7, 367–370. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42913#page/419/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. (1897) In Guide to the genera and classification of North American Orthoptera found north of Mexico. Cambridge, Mass. 87 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogeneracla00scudrich
  • 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 genera of N. American Melanopli. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 32, 195–206. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22280#page/209/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Song, H. & Wenzel, J.W. (2008) Phylogeny of bird-grasshopper subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and the evolution of locust phase polyphenism. Cladistics, 24, 515–542.
  • Song, H., Mariño-Pérez, R., Woller, D.A. & Cigliano, M.M. (2018) Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Insect Systematics and Evolution, 2(4). Available at http://academic.oup.com/isd/article/2/4/3/5052737
  • Uvarov, B.P. (1966) Hibernation of active stages of Acridoidea in temperate climates. Atti della Accademia Gioenia di Scienze naturali in Catania, 6(13), 175–189.
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1983) A monograph of the orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Memoirs of the Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 13(1), I-IV, i-xxii, 1–679.
  • Woller, D.A., Fontana, P., Mariño-Pérez, R. & Song, H. (2014) Studies in Mexican Grasshoppers: Liladownsia fraile, a new genus and species of Dactylotini (Acrididae: Melanoplinae) and an updated molecular phylogeny of Melanoplinae. Zootaxa, 3793(4), 475–495. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03793p495.pdf

Descendants and synonyms

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Names
Rank Total Valid Invalid
subfamily211
tribe1569
subtribe532
infratribe624
genus20114853
subgenus954
superspecies48480
species20431226817
subspecies395132263