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Melanoplus differentialis nigricans Cockerell, 1917 (Infrasubspecific)

Melanoplus differentialis nigricans Cockerell, 1917: (Otu).
Melanoplus differentialis nigricans Cockerell, 1917: (Otu).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Melanoplus differentialis var. nigricans Cockerell, 1917: 247. (excluded: infrasubspecific; valid)

    Holotype; male; USNM #22955; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Colorado: Boulder: Boulder

  • Melanoplus differentialis var. nigricans Cockerell, 1917 (subjective synonym of Acridium differentiale Thomas, 1865) in Hebard, 1925: 101.
  • Melanoplus differentialis nigricans Cockerell, 1917 in Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2008: 170.
  • Melanoplus differentialis nigricans Cockerell, 1917 in Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez & Horta-Vega, 2013: 264.

References (10)

  • Cockerell, T.D.A. (1917) Melanism in the Orthoptera. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 29, 247. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95157#page/296/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1925) The Orthoptera of South Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 77, 33–155.
  • King, R.L. (1933) Inheritance of melanism in the grasshopper, Melanoplus differentialis. The American Naturalist, 67, 80.
  • Roberts, H.R. (1942) Two subspecies of Melanoplus differentialis and related new species from Mexico, with discussion on their variations (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 68(3), 151–166, 2 pls. Available at http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=5077659_227_002
  • 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]
  • Strohecker, H.F., Middlekauff, W.W. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1968) The grasshoppers of California (Orthoptera: Acridoidea). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 10, 1–177. Available at http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis10.pdf
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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., 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.

Descendants and synonyms

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