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Melanoplus borealis Fieber 1853

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Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853

Melanoplus borealis borealis: Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 828; Vickery, 1984: 11; Berman et al., 1995: 2; Vickery, 1997: 226. Melanoplus borealis: Haberski et al., 2021: 5, 37.

Melanoplus gordonae: Vickery, 1969: 258.

Remarks. This species ranges east to Newfoundland and as far south as Colorado and Massachusetts and recorded from Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. It is highly variable in color and wing morphology. Both long and short-winged morphotypes are present. Described from Alaska Melanoplus gordonae Vickery, 1969 now is considered as a synonym of Melanoplus b. borealis (Haberski et al., 2021).

Notes

Published as part of Storozhenko, Sergey Yu., 2023, Orthoptera of Northeast Asia and Northwest America, pp. 564-578 in Zootaxa 5264 (4) on page 568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7837186

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C78784B25AE318FF49FBD2CBEBFAF3

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.4.6 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7837186 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFEFFFCB25EE31CFFDEFFCBC809FF94 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/1F4CBFFA-4C4B-4700-88CF-95B7D2895981 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03C78784B25AE318FF49FBD2CBEBFAF3 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/209561096 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/250571/taxon/03C78784B25AE318FF49FBD2CBEBFAF3.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Acrididae
Genus
Melanoplus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fieber
Species
borealis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853 sec. Storozhenko, 2023

References

  • Vickery, V. R. & Kevan, D. K. M. (1983) A monograph of the Orthopteroid insects of Canada and adjacent regions. Vols. I - II. Memoir of Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 13, 1 - 1462.
  • Vickery, V. R. (1984) The Orthopteroid insects of Yukon. Note of Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory, 10, 1 - 42.
  • Berman, D. I., Storozhenko, S. Yu. & Kholin, S. K. (1995) To the fauna and bionomics of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of the Southern Yukon, Canada. Far Eastern Entomologist, 23, 1 - 8.
  • Vickery, V. R. (1997) Orthopteroid insects (Orthoptera) of Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. & Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 223 - 239.
  • Haberski, A., Woller, D. A. & Sikes, D. S. (2021) Orthoptera of Alaska: A photographic key, new records, and synonymy of Melanoplus gordonae. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 44, 1 - 52. https: // doi. org / 10.3752 / cjai. 2021.44
  • Vickery, V. R. (1969) Two new species of Sub-Arctic American Orthoptera. Entomological News, 80, 265 - 272.