Melanoplus borealis Fieber 1853 ...

• Main Author: Storozhenko, Sergey Yu.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Orthoptera; Acrididae; Melanoplus; Melanoplus borealis; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Newfoundland; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7837047; https://zenodo.org/record/7837047

Melanoplus borealis Fieber, 1853 Melanoplus borealis borealis : Vickery & Kevan, 1983: 828; Vickery, 1984: 11; Berman et al. , 1995: 2; Vickery, 1997: 226. Melanoplus borealis : Haberski et al. , 2021: 5, 37. Melanoplus gordonae : Vickery, 1969: 258. 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). ... : Published as part of Storozhenko, Sergey Yu., 2023, Orthoptera of Northeast Asia and Northwest America, pp. 564-578 in Zootaxa 5264 (4) on page 568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7837186 ...