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Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903

Morse's Locust

Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903: Fig. 131. male (body length 17-18 mm). (Otu).
Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903: Fig. 131. male (body length 17-18 mm). (Otu).
Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903: Fig. 78. male cercus, lateral view. (Otu).

Type specimen

Lectotype; male; 1f175979-193a-4b61-9dda-c78f075ff9b4; deposited at: Purdue University (PURC); United States: Indiana: Crawford: Crawford

Nomenclature (7)

  • Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903: 109-311.
  • Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903 in Blatchley, 1920: 376.
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  • Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903 in Eades, 1959: 8.
  • Melanoplus morsei Blatchley, 1903 in Hill, 2014: 5.

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Blatchley, W.S. (1903) The Orthoptera of Indiana. Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana [Orthoptera of Indiana], 27, 123–471. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36406
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1920) In Orthoptera of northeastern America with special reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis. 781 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/16768
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  • Blatchley, W.S. (1930) In Blatchleyana. The Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis. 77 pp.
  • Eades, D.C. (1959) A new species of Melanoplus from southeastern United States (Orth. Acrid. Cyrtacanthacridinae). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 614, 1–11. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/57051
  • Hebard, M. (1934) The Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 20, 125–279. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14760321
  • Hebard, M. (1935) New genera and species of the Melanopli found within the United States and Canada (Orthoptera: Acrididae), Parts V and VI. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 60(4), 337–390. [1934] Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4270_004#page/25/mode/1up
  • Hill, J.V.G. (2014) Biological notes on some species of the Melanoplus tribulus species group (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae) from the southeastern United States with a description of two new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 140, 1–16. Available at http://authors.entomology-aes.org/article/public/3.pdf
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Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial

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