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Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872)

Flabellate Grasshopper

Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): female (about 13 miles north of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 6 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): female (about 13 miles north of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 6 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): male (about 9 miles north of Bridgeport, Nebraska, 16 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872): male genitalia. (Otu).

Type specimen

Lectotype; male; USNM #727; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Wyoming: Cottonwood

Nomenclature (33)

  • Caloptenus [sic] occidentalis Thomas, 1872: 453.
  • Caloptenus [sic] occidentalis Thomas, 1872 in Thomas, 1878: 484.
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  • Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872) in Pfadt, 1988
  • Melanoplus occidentalis (Thomas, 1872) in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 130, Plate 27.

Nomenclature references (25)

  • Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
  • Bruner, L. (1893) A list of Nebraska Orthoptera. Publications of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 3, 19–33. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=5KwWAQAAIAAJ
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  • Bruner, L. (1904) Some new Colorado Orthoptera. Bulletin of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, 94, 57–67.
  • 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
  • Buckell, E.R. (1924) Additions and corrections to the list of British Columbia Orthoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of British Columbia, 21, 7–12. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44236#page/939/mode/1up
  • Capinera, J.L., Scott, R.D. & Walker, T.J. (2004) In Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 249 pp.
  • 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
  • Hebard, M. (1918) New genera and species of Melanopli found within the United States (Orthoptera: Acridiidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 44(2), 141–169. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4254_002#page/39/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1925) The Orthoptera of South Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 77, 33–155.
  • Hebard, M. (1927) Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 79, 1–11.
  • Hebard, M. (1928) The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 80, 211–306.
  • Hebard, M. (1929) The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 303–425.
  • 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
  • Pfadt, R.E. (1988) Field guide to common western grasshoppers. Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 912, 1–25 + 68 pp.
  • 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. & Hebard, M. (1908) An orthopterological reconnaissance of the southwestern United States. Part I: Arizona. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 60, 365–402. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30138
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Slifer, E.H. (1943) The internal genitalia of some previously unstudied species of female Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology (Philadelphia), 72(2), 225–237.
  • Thomas, C. (1872) Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions. In Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress. Vol. 5, pp. 423–466, 2 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=NgdSAAAAcAAJ
  • Thomas, C. (1878) On the Orthoptera collected by Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A., in Dakota and Montana during 1873-74. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 4, 481–502. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98470#page/505/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]
  • Vickery, V.R. & Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1986) The grasshoppers, crickets, and related insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Ulonata: Dermaptera, Cheleutoptera, Notoptera, Dictuoptera, Grylloptera, and Orthoptera. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, 14, 1–918. Available at http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/aac-aafc/agrhist/A42-42-1985-14-eng.pdf
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