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Melanoplus is a large genus of grasshoppers. They are the typical large grasshoppers in North America. A common name is spur-throat grasshoppers, but this more typically refers to members of the related subfamily Catantopinae.

Selected species
New species are often being discovered and described in this genus where speciation runs rampant in isolated areas, involving speciation by hybridization. • Melanoplus adelogyrus – Volusia grasshopper, St. Johns short-wing grasshopper • Melanoplus alpinus – alpine grasshopper • Melanoplus angustipennis – narrow-winged sand grasshopper, narrow-winged spur-throat grasshopper • Melanoplus aridus – arid lands spur-throat grasshopper • Melanoplus bispinosus – two-spined spurthroated grasshopper • Melanoplus bivittatus – two-striped grasshopper • Melanoplus borealis – northern spur-throat grasshopper • Melanoplus bowditchi – sagebrush grasshopper • Melanoplus bruneri – Bruner's spur-throat grasshopper • Melanoplus confusus – pasture grasshopper • Melanoplus dawsonii – Dawson's grasshopper • Melanoplus devastator – devastating grasshopper • Melanoplus differentialis – differential grasshopper • Melanoplus femurrubrum – red-legged grasshopper • Melanoplus foedus – striped sand grasshopper • Melanoplus foxi Hebard, 1923 • Melanoplus forcipatusMelanoplus gladstoni – Gladston's (spur-throat) grasshopper • Melanoplus infantilis – little spur-throat grasshopper • Melanoplus keeleri – Keeler's spur-throat grasshopper • Melanoplus kennicotti – Kennicott grasshopper • Melanoplus lakinus – Lakin grasshopper • Melanoplus ludivinae Fontana, Buzzetti & Marino-Perez, 2011 • Melanoplus nossi– Noss' spur throat grasshopper • Melanoplus oaxacae Fontana, Buzzetti & Marino-Perez, 2011 • Melanoplus occidentalis – flabellate grasshopper • Melanoplus packardii – Packard's grasshopper • Melanoplus punctulatus – pine tree spur-throat grasshopper • Melanoplus quercicolaMelanoplus rugglesi – Nevada sage grasshopper • Melanoplus sanguinipes – migratory grasshopper • Melanoplus scudderi – Scudder's short-winged grasshopper • †Melanoplus spretus – Rocky Mountain locust (extinct: 1902) • Melanoplus stonei – Stone's grasshopper • Melanoplus viridipes – green-legged grasshopper • Melanoplus walshii – Walsh's short-wing grasshopper • Melanoplus washingtonius Two-striped Grasshopper.jpg|Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) Grasshopper_at_MGSP.jpg|Differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis) ==See also==
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