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species †Melanoplus spretus (Walsh, 1866)

• Common name(s):  Rocky Mountain Locust
• Images: (8) See all images
• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (38):
  • Walsh. 1866. Practical Entomologist 2(1):1-2   >> Note: name given by Uhler without describing it >> Caloptenus spretus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:54260
  • Scudder, S.H. 1868[1866-1868]. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 11:436 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Thomas, C. 1869-1870. Amer. Ent. 2(3):73-76 [31-34]   >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:678   >> Note: Acridium spretum Uhler >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1872. Final Report of the United States Geological Survey of Nebraska and Portions of the adjecent territories made under the direction of the commissioner of the General Land office 250 >> Note: Uhl. >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Packard Jr. 1875. Am. Nat. 9:573 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Riley, C.V. 1875. Trans. Entomol. Soc. London Proc. :18 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Riley, C.V. 1875. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 5 5:144 CXLIV   >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Snow. 1875. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 4:26-28 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1875. In Dawson, G.M. Brit. N. Amer. Bound. Comm. Geol. Rept. of Progr. in the vicinity of the 49th Parallel 1873:343 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Riley, C.V. 1877. Am. Nat. 11:663-673   >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1877[1874-1876]. Psyche 1(22):144   >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1878[1876-1878]. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 19:287   >> Melanoplus spretus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:54259
  • Stål. 1878. Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 5(9):14   >> Note: C. spretus Uhler >> Pezotettix (Melanoplus) spretus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:514979
  • Riley, C.V. 1878. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 3(4), Proc.:226 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Thomas, C. 1878. Bull. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Territ. 4:483, 485-501   >> Note: claiming to be author of name >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Riley, C.V. 1879[1878]. Proc. 27th Mtg. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (St. Louis, 1878) 271-277 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Bruner, L. 1883. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. 3 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Bruner, L. 1883. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. 3:8-20, 21-52 >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Bruner, L. 1884. Bull. Dep. Agric. Ent. 4:51-62   >> Caloptenus spretus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1897. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 20(1124):184   >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Scudder, S.H. & Cockerell. 1902. Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 9:45   >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 56:537   >> Note: misspelling, spretis (Thomas) >> Melanoplus spretis
  • Hebard. 1928. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 80:282 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Brooks, A.R. 1958. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 90(9):30 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Gurney & A.R. Brooks. 1959. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 110:1-93   >> Note: Mexicanus Group >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Liebermann. 1965. Physis 25:219 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada 14:432   >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Lockwood, S. 1989. Canadian Ent. 121:1103 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Lockwood, J.A. 1989. Canadian Ent. 121(12):1103-1109 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Cohn. 1994. Jour. Orth. Res. 3:59-63 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Lockwood, J.A. 1996. Jour. Orth. Res. 5:57 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Hoekstra. 1998. J. Insect Conservation 2(3-4):179 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Lockwood, J.A. 2001. Amer. Ent. 47(4):208-215 >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Johnson, D.L. 2002. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 8:16   >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Lockwood, J.A. 2004. Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that shaped the American Frontier 320 pp. >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Samways. 2006. Conservation Biology 20(2):246   >> Melanoplus spretus
  • Lockwood, J.A. 2010. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 3(2):129-160 >> Melanoplus spretus
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, North-Central U.S.A., Kansas
  • Kind of type:  neotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  USNM Washington

• synonym coeruleipes (Cockerell, 1889)

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