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species Spharagemon equale (Say, 1825)

• Common name(s):  Say's Grasshopper; Orange-legged Grasshopper
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  • Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (24):
  • Say. 1825. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 4:307   >> Gryllus equalis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:66994
  • Harris, T.W. 1835. In Hitchcock. A catalogue of the animals and plants in Massachusetts. VIII. Insects. Report on the geology, minerology, botany and zoology of Massachusetts. 2nd ed. 553-602 >> Locusta aequalis
  • Uhler. 1862. In Harris, T.W. A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation 3rd ed.   >> Oedipoda aequalis
  • Scudder, S.H. 1862. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 7:287   >> Oedipoda aequalis
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:731   >> Oedipoda aequalis
  • Scudder, S.H. 1874. In Hitchcock. Final Rept. Geol. New Hampshire 1:331 >> Trimerotropis aequale
  • Scudder, S.H. 1875. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 17:468   >> Spharagemon aequale
  • Saussure. 1884. Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 28(9):1-254, 1 pl.   >> Dissosteira (Spharagemon) aequalis
  • Bruner, L. 1885. Canadian Ent. 17(1):9-19   >> Spharagemon aequale
  • Fernald, C.H. 1888. The Orthoptera of New England 43   >> Dissosteira equalis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:73528
  • Beutenmüller. 1894. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 6(Article XII):301   >> Spharagemon aequale
  • Morse. 1895. Psyche 7:287   >> Spharagemon aequale
  • Henderson, W.W. 1924. Utah Agric. Expt. Sta. Bull. 191:56 >> Spharagemon aequale
  • Hebard. 1928. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 80:247 >> Spharagemon equale    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:66993
  • Hebard. 1929. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 81:347 >> Spharagemon equale
  • Hebard. 1937. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 63(3):347   >> Spharagemon aequale
  • Brooks, A.R. 1958. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 90(9):42 >> Spharagemon equale
  • Otte, D. 1970. Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. 141:45   >> Spharagemon equale
  • Otte, D. 1984. North American Grasshoppers 2:153, 328 >> Note: neotype >> Spharagemon equale
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada 14:458   >> Spharagemon equale
  • Pfadt. 1988. Wyoming Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 912:1-25 + 68 pp. >> Spharagemon equale
  • Richman, Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland & Ferguson. 1993. New Mex. Coop. Extens. Service Handbook 7:94   >> Spharagemon equale
  • Johnson, D.L. 2001. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 7:10 >> Spharagemon equale
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 100, Plate 17 >> Spharagemon equale
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, North-Central U.S.A., Kansas, 20 mi W of Colby
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  ANSP Philadelphia

• synonym humile Morse, 1895
• synonym texensis (Saussure, 1884)

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