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Melanoplus bowditchi bowditchi Scudder, 1878

Sagebrush Grasshopper
Melanoplus bowditchi bowditchi Scudder, 1878: female (west of Fort Robinson State Park in Nebraska, 4 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus bowditchi bowditchi Scudder, 1878: female (west of Fort Robinson State Park in Nebraska, 4 July 2020). (Otu).
Melanoplus bowditchi bowditchi Scudder, 1878: female, dorsal view (west of Fort Robinson State Park in Nebraska, 4 July 2020). (Otu).

Nomenclature (19)

  • Melanoplus bowditchi Scudder, 1878: 72-73.
  • Melanoplus bowditchi Scudder, 1878 in Townsend, 1893: 31.
  • Melanoplus bowditchi Scudder, 1878 in Capinera, Scott & Walker, 2004: 119, Plate 24.
  • Melanoplus bowditchi Scudder, 1878 in Ullah, Mustafa, Kneeland, Brust, Hoback, Kamble & Foster, 2014

References (19)

  • 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
  • Townsend, C.H.T. (1893) On the injurious and other locusts of New Mexico and Arizona. Insect Life, 6, 29–32. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/191483#page/41/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
  • 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. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part II: New Mexico and western Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 111–175. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84740#page/119/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1925) The Orthoptera of South Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 77, 33–155.
  • 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
  • Ball, E.D., Tinkham, E.R., Flock, R. & Vorhies, C.T. (1942) The grasshoppers and other Orthoptera of Arizona. Technical Bulletin Arizona College of Agriculture, 93, 275–373.
  • Slifer, E.H. (1943) The internal genitalia of some previously unstudied species of female Acrididae (Orthoptera). Journal of Morphology (Philadelphia), 72(2), 225–237.
  • Brooks, A.R. (1958) Acridoidea of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Orthoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 90(9), 5–92.
  • Onsager, J.A. & Mulkern, G.B. (1963) Identification of eggs and egg-pods of North Dakota grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Bimonthly Bulletin - North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, 446, 1–48.
  • Ramsay, G.W. (1964) Moult numbers in Orthoptera (Insecta). The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, 7(4), 644–666.
  • Mulkern, G.B., Pruess, K.P., Knutson, H.C., Hagen, H.F., Campbell, J.B. & Lambley, J.D. (1969) Bimonthly Bulletin - North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, 446, 1–48.
  • 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.
  • Pfadt, R.E. (1988) Field guide to common western grasshoppers. Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 912, 1–25 + 68 pp.
  • 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.
  • Ullah, M.I., Mustafa, F., Kneeland, K.M., Brust, M.L., Hoback, W.W., Kamble, S.T. & Foster, J.E. (2014) Forms of Melanoplus bowditchi (Orthoptera: Acrididae) collected from different host plants are indistinguishable genetically and in aedeagal morphology. PeerJ, 2(e418), 1–14. Available at http://peerj.com/articles/418/

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
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Subspecies1012