Melanoplus indicifer | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Acrididae |
Tribe: | Melanoplini |
Genus: | Melanoplus |
Species: | M. indicifer
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Binomial name | |
Melanoplus indicifer Hubbell, 1933
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Synonyms | |
Melanoplus insignis |
Melanoplus indicifer, known generally as the spinecercus short-wing grasshopper or east coast scrub grasshopper, is a species of spur-throated grasshopper in the family Acrididae. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is endemic to Florida scrubs on the Atlantic Coastal Ridge in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. [5]