Melanoplus pictus
| Melanoplus pictus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Tribe: | Melanoplini |
| Genus: | Melanoplus |
| Species: | M. pictus
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| Binomial name | |
| Melanoplus pictus Scudder, 1897
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Melanoplus pictus, the pictured spur-throat grasshopper, is a species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1][5] It is known to feed on Flourensia cernua leaves, among other plants.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Melanoplus pictus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Melanoplus pictus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Melanoplus pictus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Melanoplus pictus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. "Orthoptera Species File Online". Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ Richerson, Jim V.; Boldt, Paul E. (1 June 1995). "Phytophagous Insect Fauna of Flourensia cernua (Asteraceae: Heliantheae) in Trans-Pecos Texas and Arizona". Environmental Entomology. 24 (3): 588–594. doi:10.1093/ee/24.3.588.