Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae > Melanoplus > Melanoplus femurrubrum

Melanoplus femurrubrum (Red-legged Grasshopper; Red-legged Locust)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum) is a species of grasshopper belonging to the genus Melanoplus found in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Edwin S. George Reserve 1297 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acemya tibialis[1]
Ceracia dentata[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2The Food-habits and Biology of Acrididae in an Old-field Community in Southeastern Michigan, S. K. Gangwere, F. C. Evans, and M. L. Nelson, The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1976)
♦ 3Resources of a Snake Community in Prairie-Woodland Habitat of Northeastern Kansas, Henry S. Fitch, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-98 (1982)
♦ 4Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0