Melanoplus flavidus Scudder, 1878 is a animal in the Acrididae family, order Orthoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Melanoplus flavidus Scudder, 1878

Melanoplus flavidus Scudder, 1878

Melanoplus flavidus, the yellowish spur-throat grasshopper, is a North American species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae.

Family
Genus
Melanoplus
Order
Orthoptera
Class
Insecta

About Melanoplus flavidus Scudder, 1878

Melanoplus flavidus was first described by Scudder in 1878. This species is a type of spur-throated grasshopper belonging to the family Acrididae. Its most widely used common name is yellowish spur-throat grasshopper. Additional common names for this species are blue-legged locust and blue-legged grasshopper. This species occurs in North America.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Orthoptera Acrididae Melanoplus

More from Acrididae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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