''Bradynotes'' is a genus of
spur-throated grasshoppers in the family
Acrididae
The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec ...
. There is at least one described species in ''Bradynotes'', ''B. obesa'', also known as the "slow mountain grasshopper" and "mountain lubber grasshopper". It is found in North America, in the western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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There are six subspecies of ''Bradynotes obesa'':][
* ''Bradynotes obesa caurus'' Scudder, 1897
* ''Bradynotes obesa deplanata'' Hebard, 1919
* ''Bradynotes obesa kaibab'' Hebard, 1919
* ''Bradynotes obesa obesa'' (Thomas, 1872)
* ''Bradynotes obesa opima'' Scudder, 1880
* ''Bradynotes obesa referta'' Scudder, 1897
]
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Melanoplinae
Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Acrididae genera
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