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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. 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
subgenus734
superspecies48480
species20351220815
subspecies396135261