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Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878)

Lakin Grasshopper
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): nymph (about 9 miles west of Bridgeport, Nebraska, 16 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): nymph (about 9 miles west of Bridgeport, Nebraska, 16 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male (about 9 miles west of Bridgeport, Nebraska, 16 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): female. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878): male genitalia. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1564562; 9fba483b-0a42-46a7-ac10-8f6a4eeda9cd: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, lateral view (paralectotype of Melanoplus marculentus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1564562; 9fba483b-0a42-46a7-ac10-8f6a4eeda9cd: Image Carbonell, C.S. female, dorsal view (paralectotype of Melanoplus marculentus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1564563; 6978a8c2-4add-41e7-b37a-104e6f287620: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, lateral view (paralectotype of Melanoplus marculentus). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1564563; 6978a8c2-4add-41e7-b37a-104e6f287620: Image Carbonell, C.S. male, dorsal view (paralectotype of Melanoplus marculentus). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (27)

  • Pezotettix lakinus Scudder, 1878: 79-80.

    Holotype; male; 19368a02-aa77-473f-a0aa-eb4b6dc02591; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado

  • Melanoplus sonorae Scudder, 1897: 143-144.
  • Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878) in Salas Araiza, Mackay, Valdez-Carrasco, Salazar-Solís & Martínez-Jaime, 2013
  • Melanoplus lakinus (Scudder, 1878) in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Buzzetti, Méndez-Gómez & Horta-Vega, 2013: 227-228.

References (24)

  • 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. (1897) The species of the genus Melanoplus. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 36(154), 5–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31433#page/11/mode/1up
  • Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell, T.D.A. (1902) A first list of the Orthoptera of New Mexico. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 9, 1–60. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88768#page/23/mode/1up
  • Caudell, A.N. (1903) Notes on Orthoptera from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 26, 775–809, Plate 55. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32571#page/903/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
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Notes on Orthoptera from southern Arizona, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59, 24–81. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=DY9l7J6HxsAC
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hebard, M. (1917) Notes on Mexican Melonopli. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 69, 251–275. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofacad69acad
  • Hebard, M. (1932) New species and records of Mexican Orthoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 58(3), 201–371. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4268_003#page/2/mode/1up
  • 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
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1948) Faunistic and ecological studies on the Orthoptera of the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas, with especial reference to the orthopteran zones and faunae of midwestern North America. The American Midland Naturalist, 40, 521–663. [1949]
  • Bland, R.G. & Nutting, W.L. (1969) A histological and biometrical study of wing development in the grasshopper Melanoplus lakinus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 62, 419–436.
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 249 pp.
  • Chapco, W. (2006) A note on the phylogenetic position of Duartettix montanus within the subfamily Melanoplinae. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 15(1), 59–63. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282006%2915%5B59%3AANOTPP%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • García García, P.L. & Fontana, P. (2006) Diversidad y fenología de los ortópteros del Parque Nacional El Cimatario, Querétaro. Entomología Mexicana, 5(2), 249–254.
  • Rivera García, E. (2006) An annotated checklist of some orthopteroid insects of Mapimi Biosphere Reserve (Chihuahuan desert), Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, nueva serie, 22(3), 131–149. Available at http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57522311
  • Salas Araiza, M.D., Alatorre García, P. & Uribe González, E. (2006) Contribución al conocimiento de los acridoideos (Insecta: Arthropoda: Orthoptera) del estado de Querétaro, México. Acta Zoologica Mexicana, nueva serie, 2(2), 33–43. Available at http://www.cesaveq.org.mx/cesa3/page/biblioteca/investigacion/chapulinesqueretaro.pdf
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Salas Araiza, M.D., Mackay, W.P., Valdez-Carrasco, J., Salazar-Solís, E. & Martínez-Jaime, O.A. (2013) Characterization and comparison of the eggs of seven species of Mexican grasshoppers. Southwestern Entomologist, 38(2), 267–274.

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