genus Melanoplus


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Noun1.genus Melanoplus - New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppersgenus Melanoplus - New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers
Melanoplus
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Acrididae, family Acrididae, family Locustidae, Locustidae - short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
migratory grasshopper - serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States
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A Revision of the Puer Group of the North American Genus Melanoplus, with Remarks on the Taxonomic Value of the Concealed Genitalia in the Cyrtacanthacridinae.
A new species of the genus Pterodichopetala (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae) from northeastern Mexico
Grasshoppers of the Mexicanus group, genus Melanoplus (Orthoptera: Acrididae).
Life-history adaptation and reproductive isolation in a grasshopper hybrid zone
In this paper, I examine some of the parameters involved in microsite selection by ovipositing grasshoppers in the genus Melanoplus. I compare two populations ofM.
Oviposition site selection by the grasshoppers Melanoplus borealis and M. sanguinipes (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

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