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Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773)

Red-legged Grasshopper; Red-legged Locust

Fig. 1. male habitus (Melanoplus coloradus, body length 21 mm, tegmina 18 mm, hind femora 12 mm). Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
Fig. 1. male habitus (Melanoplus coloradus, body length 21 mm, tegmina 18 mm, hind femora 12 mm). Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
Fig. 69. male cercus, lateral view. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
Image Carbonell, C.S female, head and pronotum, dorsal view (syntype). Depicts CollectionObject 1530158; c54a7000-ca7b-496c-9c9d-7961c3f25ed9, a CollectionObject.
Image Carbonell, C.S female, head and pronotum, lateral view (syntype). Depicts CollectionObject 1530158; c54a7000-ca7b-496c-9c9d-7961c3f25ed9, a CollectionObject.
Fig. 1a. male abdomen tip ((Melanoplus coloradus). Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
Fig. 93. apex of subgenital plate of male. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
Image Carbonell, C.S female, dorsal view (syntype). Depicts CollectionObject 1530158; c54a7000-ca7b-496c-9c9d-7961c3f25ed9, a CollectionObject.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
nymph. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
Image Carbonell, C.S female, lateral view (syntype). Depicts CollectionObject 1530158; c54a7000-ca7b-496c-9c9d-7961c3f25ed9, a CollectionObject.
male (Rabbit Rock Park, about 1.5 miles south of Big Flats, Wisconsin, 22 July 2016). Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
male genitalia. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.
Image Carbonell, C.S label (female syntype). Depicts CollectionObject 1530158; c54a7000-ca7b-496c-9c9d-7961c3f25ed9, a CollectionObject.
11-Sep-04. individual from Ohio, Licking County, Union Township, Infirmary Mound County Park. Depicts Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773), an Otu.

Nomenclature (83)

  • Acrydium femur rubrum [sic] De Geer, 1773: 498.

    Syntype; female; c54a7000-ca7b-496c-9c9d-7961c3f25ed9; deposited at: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomology Collections (NHRS); United States: [Pennsylvania, but no locality label on specimens]

  • Acrydium femurrubrum De Geer, 1773: 498.
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  • Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773) in Latchininsky, 2019: 113-115.
  • Caloptenus [sic] femur-rubrum [sic] (De Geer, 1773) (misspelling of Acrydium femurrubrum De Geer, 1773)

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