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species Melanoplus borealis (Fieber, 1853)

• Common name(s):  Northern Grasshopper
• Images: (27) See all images
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (28):
  • Fieber. 1853. Lotos 3:120   >> Caloptenus borealis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:74808
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1861. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 11:223   >> Caloptenus borealis
  • Scudder, S.H. 1862. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 7:286-287   >> Pezotettix borealis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:183830
  • Scudder, S.H. 1869. Smithson. misc. Coll. 8:20   >> Caloptenus borealis
  • Walker, F. 1870. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum 4:678   >> Caloptenus borealis
  • Thomas, C. 1873. In Hayden [Ed.]. Zoology and Botany. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Territ. 5:227   >> Caloptenus borealis
  • Stål. 1880. Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Gesellsch. 5(7):357   >> Calliptenus borealis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:519743
  • Caulfield. 1886. Rep. Ent. Soc. Ontario 18:71 >> Melanoplus borealis    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:54133
  • Beutenmüller. 1894. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 6(Article XII):308   >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Scudder, S.H. 1897. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 20(1124):267, 403   >> Melanoplus fasciatus
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6:55   >> Caloptenus borealis
  • Morse. 1920. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 35(6):506   >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Chopard. 1928. Contribution à l'étude du peuplement des hautes montagnes 2:145   >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1931. Entomol. News 42:33-35   >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Brooks, A.R. 1958. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 90(9):22 >> Melanoplus borealis borealis
  • Gurney & A.R. Brooks. 1959. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 110:67   >> Note: Mexicanus Group >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1967. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 97:50   >> Melanoplus borealis borealis
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada 14:397   >> Melanoplus borealis borealis
  • Vickery. 1997. Insects of the Yukon 226   >> Melanoplus borealis borealis
  • Johnson, D.L. 2002. Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands 8:20   >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Chapco & Litzenberger. 2002. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 45(2):313-318 >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Bland. 2003. The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets 89 >> Melanoplus borealis borealis
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 118, Plate 24 >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Kirk, K. & Bomar. 2005. Guide to the Grasshoppers of Wisconsin 37, 74 >> Melanoplus borealis borealis
  • Fielding. 2011. Jour. Orth. Res. 20(1):75-80   >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Fielding & Mingchu Zhang. 2011. Environm. Entomol. 40(4):541-548 >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Haberski, Woller & Sikes. 2021. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 44:5, 37   >> Melanoplus borealis
  • Storozhenko. 2023. Zootaxa 5264(4):568 >> Melanoplus borealis
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Subarctic America, Greenland
  • Kind of type:  lectotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym gordonae Vickery, 1969
• synonym extremus (Walker, 1870)
• synonym junius (Dodge, 1876)
• synonym monticola Scudder, 1897
• synonym palaceus Fulton, 1930
• synonym parvus (Provancher, 1876)
• synonym scandens Scudder, 1897
• synonym septentrionalis (Saussure, 1861)

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