''Melanoplus confusus'', known generally as pasture grasshopper, is a species of
spur-throated grasshopper 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 ...
. Other common names include the pasture spur-throat grasshopper and little pasture locust.
[ It is found in North America.][
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References
Melanoplinae
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Insects described in 1897
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