High mountain grasshopper (Melanoplus frigidus)

Melanoplus frigidus
Other common names
Tundra grasshopper
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Melanoplinae
Tribe:	Melanoplini
Genus:	Melanoplus
Scientific name
Melanoplus frigidus (Boheman, 1846)
Synonyms:	Bohemanella frigida
Geography
Native countries:
Italy Russia Spain Norway France Sweden Canada United States
Traits
Diet:	Forbs

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Resources

Title	Author(s)	Year	Geographic purview	URL
IUCN European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets		2016		View URL
NatureServe Explorer				View URL

Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species. Read more…

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Gilles San Martin — 12 specimens collected
• Alexey Yabs — 5 specimens collected
• Pospelov Igor — 4 specimens collected

• Elia Guariento — 4 specimens collected
• Andre Hospers — 4 specimens collected
• Valentin Moser — 3 specimens collected
• Viacheslav Krylenko — 2 specimens collected
• Francesco Simone Mensa — 2 specimens collected
• Arina Larina — 2 specimens collected
• Oleg Kosterin — 1 specimen collected
• Ann Marie Evankow — 1 specimen collected
• Michael Steinwandter — 1 specimen collected
• Donald Davesne — 1 specimen collected
• Brandon Corder — 1 specimen collected
• Dmitry Schepaschenko — 1 specimen collected
• Joan Casanelles Abella — 1 specimen collected
• Екатерина Боровская — 1 specimen collected
• Николай Наконечный — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• Gilles San Martin — 11 specimens identified
• Elia Guariento — 6 specimens identified
• Andre Hospers — 4 specimens identified

• Valentin Moser — 3 specimens identified
• François DUSOULIER — 2 specimens identified
• 태우 김 — 2 specimens identified
• Arina Larina — 2 specimens identified
• Alexey Yabs — 2 specimens identified
• Oleg Kosterin — 1 specimen identified
• Viacheslav Krylenko — 1 specimen identified
• Pospelov Igor — 1 specimen identified
• Donald Davesne — 1 specimen identified