Species

Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878)

Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878): female. (Otu).

Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878): habitat. (Otu).

Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878): male genitalia. (Otu).

Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878): (Otu).

Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878): geographic distribution. (Otu).

Nomenclature (16)

Pezotettix aridus Scudder, 1878: 84.
Holotype; female; 3436678c-cf11-4c3f-b167-6fe1e79c9058; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); United States: Buchanan
Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878) in Scudder, 1897: 209.

Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878) in Barnum, 1964: 45.
Melanoplus aridus (Scudder, 1878) in Strohecker, Middlekauff & Rentz, 1968: 39.

References (16)

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. & 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

Rehn, J.A.G. (1904) Notes on Orthoptera from Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 562–575. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30096#page/612/mode/1up

Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Notes on Orthoptera from southern Arizona, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 59, 24–81. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=DY9l7J6HxsAC

Bruner, L. (1908) Orthoptera. The Acrididae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, 249–342. Available at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/navigation/bca_20_02_00/bca_20_02_00select.cfm

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1908) An orthopterological reconnaissance of the southwestern United States. Part I: Arizona. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 60, 365–402. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30138

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part II: New Mexico and western Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 111–175. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84740#page/119/mode/1up

Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard, M. (1909) An orthopterological reconnoisance of the southwest United States. Part III: California and Nevada. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 61, 409–483. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26288106#page/417/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1935) Studies in Orthoptera of Arizona. Part II. A list of the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Arizona with new records and corrections of the literature subsequent to 1900. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 61(3), 269–316. Available at http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=chla5077659_4271_003#page/119/mode/1up

Ball, E.D., Tinkham, E.R., Flock, R. & Vorhies, C.T. (1942) The grasshoppers and other Orthoptera of Arizona. Technical Bulletin Arizona College of Agriculture, 93, 275–373.

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]

Helfer, J.R. (1953) How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Their Allies. W.M.C. Brown Company Publishers.

Gurney, A.B. (1960) Grasshoppers of the immunis group of Melanoplus, and notes on the grouping of other far western brachypterous species of this genus (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 62(3), 145–166. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54859#page/479/mode/1up

Barnum (1964) Orthoptera of the Nevada Test Site. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, 4(3), 134 pp.
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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Latin for dry, probably relating to habitat.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	1	2