Genus

Melanoplus (North american spur-throated grasshoppers)

Melanoplus sanguinipes. Photo: (c) Kerry Matz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

Melanoplus is a large genus of grasshoppers. They are the typical large grasshoppers (and in some cases migratory “locusts”) in North America. A common name is spur-throat grasshoppers (also “spurthroat” or “spur-throated grasshoppers”), but this more typically refers to members of the related subfamily Catantopinae.

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Subtaxa

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