Wingless Mountain Grasshopper
Booneacris glacialis S.H. Scudder, 1862
Wingless Mountain Grasshopper: https://marylandbiodiversity.org/species/20575
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Description

Totally wingless spurthoat Grasshopper; usually greenish; with face nearly vertical. Found in northeast. Very closely akin, and similar to Dendrotettix, Appalachia, and perhaps Melanoplus viridipes, but those all have at least short wings. (BugGuide)

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Booneacris glacialis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Melanoplinae
Tribe: Podismini
Genus: Booneacris
Species:
B. glacialis
Binomial name
Booneacris glacialis
(Scudder, 1863)

Booneacris glacialis, the wingless mountain grasshopper, is a species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1][5]

Subspecies

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These three subspecies belong to the species Booneacris glacialis:

  • Booneacris glacialis amplicerca (Caudell, 1936) i c g
  • Booneacris glacialis canadensis (E. M. Walker, 1903) i c g
  • Booneacris glacialis glacialis (Scudder, 1863) i c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Booneacris glacialis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  2. ^ a b "Booneacris glacialis species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  3. ^ a b "Booneacris glacialis". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  4. ^ a b "Booneacris glacialis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  5. ^ Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. "Orthoptera Species File Online". Retrieved 2018-05-03.