Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853

Storozhenko, Sergey Yu., 2023, Orthoptera of Northeast Asia and Northwest America, Zootaxa 5264 (4), pp. 564-578 : 568

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.4.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1F4CBFFA-4C4B-4700-88CF-95B7D2895981

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837047

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C78784-B25A-E318-FF49-FBD2CBEBFAF3

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Plazi

scientific name

Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853
status

 

Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853 View in CoL View at ENA

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

Melanoplus gordonae: Vickery, 1969: 258 View in CoL .

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) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Melanoplus

Loc

Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853

Storozhenko, Sergey Yu. 2023
2023
Loc

Melanoplus borealis borealis:

Haberski, A. & Woller, D. A. & Sikes, D. S. 2021: 5
Vickery, V. R. 1997: 226
Berman, D. I. & Storozhenko, S. Yu. & Kholin, S. K. 1995: 2
Vickery, V. R. 1984: 11
Vickery, V. R. & Kevan, D. K. M. 1983: 828
1983
Loc

Melanoplus gordonae: Vickery, 1969: 258

Vickery, V. R. 1969: 258
1969
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