species

Melanoplus dodgei (Thomas, 1871)

Type specimen

Holotype; male; dc6e833f-4c42-4c74-9265-9a6e78bcb13e; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Colorado: El Paso: Pikes Peak

Nomenclature (16)

Caloptenus [sic] dodgei Thomas, 1871: 168.
Holotype; male; dc6e833f-4c42-4c74-9265-9a6e78bcb13e; deposited at: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM); United States: Colorado: El Paso: Pikes Peak
Pezotettix aspirans Scudder, 1878: 85.
Syntypes (n= 2); male; 648d9e2e-44bd-424e-a2ca-c088fcebb41d; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado: El Paso: above timber on Pike's Peak. Syntypes (n= 2); female; 69387205-b91c-48ed-a85e-9af76e28286c; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Colorado: El Paso: above timber on Pike's Peak
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Melanoplus dodgei (Thomas, 1871) in Vickery & Kevan, 1986: 392.
Melanoplus incultus Scudder, 1899 (synonym of Caloptenus [sic] dodgei Thomas, 1871) in Otte, 1995: 377.

Nomenclature references (15)

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
Chopard, L. (1928) La faune des Orthoptères des montagnes des Etats-Unis et ses rapports avec la faune paléarctique. In Contribution à l'étude du peuplement des hautes montagnes. Societé de Biogéographie, Paris. Vol. 2, 142–149. Available at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64170790/f150.image
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Hebard, M. (1927) Fixation of the single types of species of Orthoptera described by Cyrus Thomas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 79, 1–11.

Hebard, M. (1929) The Orthoptera of Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 81, 303–425.

Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660

Otte, D. (1995) Orthoptera Species File 4. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 518 pp.

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

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1912) Fixation of single type (lectotype) specimens of American Orthoptera. Section I. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 64(1), 60–128. Available at http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofaca64acad/page/60/mode/2up

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

Scudder, S.H. (1897) Revision of the Orthopteran group Melanopli (Acrididae) with special reference to North American forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 20(1124), 1–421. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/revisionoforthop00scudrich

Scudder, S.H. (1899) Supplement to a revision of the Melanopli. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 7, 157–205. [1897] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50099#page/175/mode/1up

Scudder, S.H. (1901) Alphabetical index to North American Orthoptera described in the eighteenth and nineteenth centures. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 6, 1–436. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31824#page/15/mode/1up

Thomas, C. (1871) On a new grasshopper from Colorado. The Canadian Entomologist, 3(9), 168. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26369#page/178/mode/1up

Van Horn, D. (1965) Variations in size and phallic morphology among populations of Melanoplus dodgei (Thomas) in the Colorado Front Range. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 91, 95–119.
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