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species Melanoplus femurrubrum (De Geer, 1773)

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation (Incorrect original spelling is femur-rubrum)
• Common name(s):  Red-legged Grasshopper; Red-legged Locust
• Images: (21) See all images

  specimen

• Links:
  • Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (51):
  • De Geer. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes 3:498   >> Acrydium femur-rubrum
  • Goeze. 1778. Entomologische Beyträge zu des Ritter Linné zwölften Ausgabe des Natursystems 2:115   >> Gryllus (Locusta) femur-rubrum
  • Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2 2(I-VIII):638   >> Caloptenus femur-rubrum
  • Haan. 1842. Temminck [Ed.] Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlansche Overzeesche Bezittingen 16/18:143   >> Acridium (Caloptenus) femur-rubrum
  • Scudder, S.H. 1862. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 7:287   >> Caloptenus femur-rubrum
  • Packard Jr. 1867. Am. Nat. 1:271-272   >> Note: [no scientific name mentioned]
  • Scudder, S.H. 1869. Smithson. misc. Coll. 8:II. 20   >> Caloptenus femur rubrum
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:678   >> Caloptenus femur-rubrum
  • Stål. 1873. Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1:79   >> Pezotettix (Melanoplus) femur-rubrum
  • Scudder, S.H. 1874. In Hitchcock. Final Rept. Geol. New Hampshire 1:375 >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Stål. 1878. Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 5(9):13   >> Pezotettix femur-rubrum
  • Caulfield. 1887. Can. Rec. Sci. 2:401   >> Caloptenus (Melanoplus) femur-rubrum
  • Fernald, C.H. 1888. The Orthoptera of New England 33   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Beutenmüller. 1894. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 6(Article XII):306   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Scudder, S.H. 1897. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 20(1124):278-285   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6:8   >> Acridium femurrubrum    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:54431
  • Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell. 1902. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 9:47   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 26:801   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 56:571   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Morse. 1904. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 18:43   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1906. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 58:410   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1916. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 68:238   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum
  • Blatchley. 1920. Orthoptera of northeastern America with special reference to the faunas of Indiana and Florida 419   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Morse. 1920. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 35(6):503   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Hebard. 1928. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 80:275 >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum
  • Hebard. 1932. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 58(3):289   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum
  • Hebard. 1934. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 20:197   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum
  • Roeder. 1939. Jour. Cell. comp. Physiol. 14:299-307 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Roeder. 1940. Jour. Cell. comp. Physiol. 16:399-401 >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Cantrall. 1943. Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. 54:117   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum
  • Brooks, A.R. 1958. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 90(9):25 >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum
  • Gurney. 1960. Proc. Entom. Soc. Washington 62(3):145-166   >> Note: immunis group >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • Kevan, D.K.M. & Vickery. 1965. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 22:105-107   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1967. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 97:49   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum femurrubrum
  • Strohecker, Middlekauff & D.C.F. Rentz. 1968. Bull. Calif. Insect Surv. 10:47   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum
  • Otte, D. 1970. Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. 141:111   >> Melanoplus femur-rubrum
  • COPR (Centre for Overseas Pest Research). 1982. The Locust and Grasshopper Agricultural Manual 169 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada 14:420   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum femurrubrum
  • Pfadt. 1988. Wyoming Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 912:1-25 + 68 pp. >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Guenther, S.J. & Chapco. 1990. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 66(1):39-42   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Skareas & Hsiung. 1999. Jour. Orth. Res. 8:129 >> Note: misspelling, Melanoplini >> Melanoplus femmurubrum
  • Johnson, D.L. 2002. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 8:21   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Bland. 2003. The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets 94 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 124, Plate 26 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Kirk, K. & Bomar. 2005. Guide to the Grasshoppers of Wisconsin 36, 80 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Rivera García. 2006. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 22(3):142   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Capinera. 2008. Encyclopedia of Entomology 18:3119-3123 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Barrientos-Lozano, R.F. Medina & Rocha-Sánchez. 2009. Jour. Orth. Res. 18(1):47   >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Buzzetti, Méndez-Gómez & Horta-Vega. 2013. Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada 226 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez & Horta-Vega. 2013. Zootaxa 3669(3):265 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum
  • Latchininsky. 2019. In Lecoq & Long Zhang [Ed.]. Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World 113-115 >> Melanoplus femurrubrum

• synonym coloradus Caudell, 1903
• synonym devorator (Scudder, 1875)
• synonym erythropus (Gmelin, 1790)
• synonym femorale (Olivier, 1791)
• synonym femur-rubrum (De Geer, 1773)
• synonym interior Scudder, 1878
• synonym plumbum (Dodge, 1877)
• synonym repletus (Walker, 1870)
• synonym sanguinolentus (Provancher, 1876)

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