Open AccessNew records of grasshoppers (Orthoptera) from the Northwest Territories
Author(s) -
Paul M. Catling,
Brenda Kostiuk,
Terry Armstrong
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canadian field-naturalist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 28
ISSN - 0008-3550
DOI - 10.22621/cfn.v134i3.2329
Subject(s) - grasshopper , orthoptera , fauna , acrididae , geography , suspect , ecology , locust , biology , political science , law
We provide information on two additions to the fauna of Northwest Territories, Canada: Two-striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus) and Huron Short-winged Locust (Melanoplus huroni). We suspect that both are long established but were overlooked in the past as a consequence of general rarity.