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† Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866)

Rocky Mountain Locust

Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male, head and pronotum. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male, abdomen end. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male genitalia. (Otu).
Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866): male genitalia. (Otu).

Nomenclature (42)

  • † Caloptenus [sic] spretus Walsh, 1866: 1-2. (fossil)

    Neotype; male; 1ba024c5-f42b-4700-837e-703c78c6194a; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Kansas

  • † Caloptenus [sic] spretus Walsh, 1866 in Scudder, 1868
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  • Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866) in Lockwood, 2010
  • Melanoplus spretis [sic] Walsh, 1866 (misspelling of † Caloptenus [sic] spretus Walsh, 1866)

Nomenclature references (39)

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  • Bruner, L. (1883) On reference to the Rocky Mountain locust. Chapt. 4 Notes on other locusts and on the western cricket. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., 3.
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  • Bruner, L. (1883) The Rocky Mountain Locust in 1880 and in Wyoming, Montana & C., in 1881. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., 3, 8–20, 21–52.
  • Bruner, L. (1884) Observations on the Rocky Mountain Locust during the summer of 1883. Bulletin. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 4, 51–62. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/131718#page/53/mode/1up
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. (1889) On the variation of insects. Summary and remarks on colour varieties. The Entomologist, 22, 125–127. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42364#page/151/mode/1up
  • Cohn, T.J. (1994) The use of male genitalia in taxonomy and comments on Lockwood's 1989 paper on Melanoplus spretus (Walsh). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 3, 59–63.
  • Gurney, A.B. & Brooks, A.R. (1959) Grasshoppers of the Mexicanus Group, genus Melanoplus (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 110, 1–93. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53298#page/9/mode/1up
  • Hebard, M. (1928) The Orthoptera of Montana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 80, 211–306.
  • Hoekstra, J.M. (1998) Conserving Orthoptera in the wild: lessons from Trimerotropis infantilis (Oedipodinae). Journal of Insect Conservation, 2(3-4), 179–185.
  • Johnson, D.L. (2002) Spur-throated grasshoppers of the Canadian prairies and northern Great Plains. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands, 8, 16–25. Available at http://www.sidney.ars.usda.gov/grasshopper/ID_Tools/nat_guides/spurthgh.pdf
  • Liebermann, J. (1965) Nuevos materiales homotípicos en la colección de acridios del Instituto de Patología Vegetal, Instituto Nacional de Technología Agropecuaria, INTA (Orthoptera). Physis. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, 25, 213–222.
  • Lockwood, J.A. (1989) Taxonomic status of the Rocky Mountain Locust: morphametric comparisons of Melanoplus spretus (Walsh) with solitary and migratory Melanoplus sanguinipes. The Canadian Entomologist, 121(12), 1103–1109.
  • Lockwood, J.A. (1996) Phallic facts, fallacies, and fantasies: comments on Cohn's 1994 paper on Melanoplus spretus (Walsh). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 5, 57–60.
  • Lockwood, J.A. (2001) Voices from the past: what we can learn from the Rocky Mountain Locust. American Entomologist (Lanham, Md.), 47(4), 208–215.
  • Lockwood, J.A. (2004) In Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that shaped the American Frontier. Basic Books, New York. 320 pp.
  • Lockwood, J.A. (2010) The fate of the Rocky Mountain locust, Melanoplus spretus Walsh: implications for conservation biology. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 3(2), 129–160.
  • Lockwood, S. (1989) Taxonomic status of the Rocky Mountain Locust: morphometric comparisons of Melanoplus spretus (Walsh) with solitary and migratory Melanoplus sanguinipes (F). The Canadian Entomologist, 121, 1103–1109.
  • Packard, A.S., Jr. (1875) Caloptenus spretus in Massachusetts. The American Naturalist, 9, 573.
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1904) Notes on Orthoptera from northern and central Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 513–549. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30096#page/563/mode/1up
  • Riley, C.V. (1875) Caloptenus spretus préparé comme conserve alimentaire. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 5, 144 CXLIV. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34131#page/638/mode/1up
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  • Riley, C.V. (1877) The Rocky Mountain Locust. The American Naturalist, 11, 663–673. Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/271980
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  • 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. (1868) Notes on the eggs and egg-cases of Caloptenus spretus. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 11, 436. [1866]
  • Scudder, S.H. (1872) Notes on the Orthoptera collected by Dr. F. V. Hayden in Nebraska. Part III Entomology. In Final Report of the United States Geological Survey of Nebraska and Portions of the adjecent territories made under the direction of the commissioner of the General Land office. U. S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington. 249–261 pp.
  • Scudder, S.H. (1875) Notice on the butterflies and Orthoptera collected by Mr. George M. Dawson, as naturalist of the B.N.A. Boundary Commission. In British North American Boundary Commission Geological Report of Progress in the vicinity of the 49th Parallel. Vol. 1873, pp. Appendix D.
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  • Stål, C. (1878) Observationes orthoptérologiques 3. De genere Pezotettigis et nonnullis generibus affinibus. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 5(9), 1–20. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49816#page/403/mode/1up
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