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An Annotated List of the Orthoptera of Nebraska Part II the Tettigidae and Acrididae University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, University of Nebraska State Museum 1953 An Annotated list of the Orthoptera of Nebraska Part II The ettT igidae and Acrididae Harold A. Hauke Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museumbulletin Part of the Entomology Commons, Geology Commons, Geomorphology Commons, Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, Paleobiology Commons, Paleontology Commons, and the Sedimentology Commons Hauke, Harold A., "An Annotated list of the Orthoptera of Nebraska Part II The eT ttigidae and Acrididae" (1953). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum. 43. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museumbulletin/43 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Museum, University of Nebraska State at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM An Annotated List of the Orthoptera of Nebraska Part II The Tettigidae and Acrididae By Harold A. Hauhe CONTRIBUTION OF THE DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY JUNE, 1953 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA R. G. Gustavson, Chancellor MUSEUM STAFF C. BERTRAND SCHULTZ, Director and Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology BENJAMIN H. BURMA, Curator, NATHAN L. MOHLER, Staff Artist Invertebrate Paleontology L. W. QUATE, Curator, JOHN F. DAVIDSON, Curator, Entomology Botany and Herbarium HENRY REIDER, Chief E. MOTT DAVIS, Curator, Preparator Anthropology MARJORIE SHANAFELT, Assistant to Director PAUL T. GILBERT, Honorary Curator, Zoology E. F. SCHRAMM, Curator, Geology' CARL W. GUGLER, Curator, Zoology_ LLOYD G. TANNER, Asst. Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology MARY L. HANSON, Technical Assistant and Associate MRS. PATRICIA R. WALL, Curator, Curator, Zoology Health Sciences RESEARCH AND FIELD ASSOCIATES W. D. FRANKFORTER, Vertebrate T. C. MIDDLESWART, Vertebrate Paleontology Paleontology GILBERT C. LUENINGHOENER, THOMPSON M. STOUT, Vertebrate Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology Paleontology MARTIN H. MUMA, Entomology MUSEUM CONSULTING COMMITTEE I. H. BLAKE W. E. MILITZER S. I. FUENNING W. W. RAY W. N. GILLILAND J. M. REINHARDT R. W. Goss C. B. SCHULTZ, Chairman R. E. HILL BOARD OF UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS R. V. SHUMATE, Chairman K. O. BROADY F. W. HOOVER F. A. LUNDY H. F. RHOADES G. S. ROUND E. N. JOHNSON EMILY SCHOSSBERGER, Secretary BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM VOLUME 3. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JUNE 1953 NUMBER 9 An Annotated list of the Orthoptera of Nebraska Part II The Tettigidae and Acrididae HAROLD A. HAUKE HIS IS THE SECOND of a series of papers on the Orthoptera of T Nebraska. It is a continuation of the revision of an un­ published thesis on this subject by the author in 1934. The purposes of the present paper are threefold. First it is a list of the grasshoppers which are or should be found in the state. Secondly the distribution of each species is shown for this or adjoining states and the specimens in the insect collec­ tion of the Nebraska State Museum at the College of Agricul­ ture are recorded. Many references to Nebraska species by earlier workers in the field have also been cited. The specimens of Tettigidae and Acrididae in the Nebraska collection were all examined. Much identification work was necessary on most of the material. The original descriptions were all checked and listed and a partial synonomy given. Hebard's lists were, for the most part, used as an outline for this paper. Rol;>erts (1941) was followed in listing the genus Tetrix. A great deal of collecting needs to be done in the state to bring the collection up to the place where it will be truly representative of all species of grasshoppers native to this area. A total of 7 species of pygmy locusts are listed. The Acrididae are represented by 126 species of which 98 are represented in the Museum collection. As with the other families of Orthop­ tera the nucleus around which the present collection has been built is material which was gathered by Lawrence Bruner and his students. In later years additions have been made to the collection by various instructors and students in Entomology. 1 2 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM There are four species of grasshoppers in Nebraska which from time to time are of great economic importance to crops. They are Melanoplus mexicanus mexicanus (Saussure), M. differentalis (Thomas), M. bivittatus (Say), and M. femur­ rubrum femur-rubrum (DeGeer). In recent years it has been recognized that mixed populations of rangeland grasshoppers can cause serious damage to grazing lands. Some of the more important species of grasshoppers found on rangeland grasses are Ageneotettix deorum (Scud­ der), Melanoplus mexicanus mexicanus (Saussure), M. bivit­ tatus (Say), Aulocara elliotti (Thomas), Cordillacris occipitalis occipitalis (Thomas), Amphitornus coloradus (Thomas), Phili­ bostroma quadrimaculatum (Thomas) and Phoetaliotes ne­ brascensis (Thomas). Nebraska terrain is quite diverse. The altitude of the state ranges from 825 feet in the southeast (Richardson County) to 5340 feet at the western border (western Banner County). Ne­ braska extends approximately 450 miles from the Missouri River on the east to the Wyoming line on the west, and 207 miles from South Dakota on the north to Kansas on the south. The state has three climatic belts-humid, sub-humid, and semi­ arid-and fourteen topographic regions. Two of these regions have been referred to as localities by various collectors. One of these, Pine Ridge, is composed of rough, broken escarpments covered with pine trees. It runs east and west through most of the north half of Sheridan, Dawes and Sioux counties. At one time there was a Pine Ridge post office in this region in Dawes County. For this reason the Pine Ridge locale has been placed in Dawes County in the text. The Sand Hills locality is another which has been used by collectors. It covers about 22,500 square miles in the northcentral counties. Sand hills are also found in the southwest half of Dundy County. For the distribution of species in this list, the locality has been referred to the northcentral counties. Distribution records for the various species, unless otherwise stated, are listed from the east to the west and from north to south. ,The writer wishes to express his appreciation to Dr. R. E. Hill and other members of the Department of Entomology who have been of great assistance in the preparation of this paper and especially to Dr. M. H. Muma under whose guidance it was prepared. The assistance of Mr. James A. G. Rehn in past years and more recently that of Dr. Ashley B. Gurney of the AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE ORTHOPTERA OF NEBRASKA 3 U. S. National Museum, in the determination of some of the more difficult species has been invaluable. Dr. Gurney has also helped the writer solve many of the taxonomic problems en­ countered. Mr. Herbert S. Wallace kindly determined speci­ mens of Aeoloplus. Family TETRIGIDAE SUBFAMILY TETRIGINAE Nomo:teUix parvus (Morse) 1895. Nomotettix parvus Morse, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., III, p.14. 1931. Nomotettix parvus Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phi/a., LXXXIII, p. 132. This insect should be found in extreme eastern Nebraska counties. It has been recorded from Douglas County, Kansas. Hebard (1925) stated that there was a possibility of it being taken in southeastern South Dakota because of this record and also that of the type locality, St. Anthony Park, Minnesota. It is not represented in the present collection. SPECIMENS EXAMINED: None. Te:trix subula:ta (Latreille) 1804. Tetrix subulata Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., XII, p.164. 1837. Acrydium granulatum Kirby, Fauna Boreali-Amer., IV, p. 251. 1936. Acrydium subulatum Hebard, N. Dakota Exp. Sta. Bull. 284, p. 27. 1941. Tetrix subulatum Roberts, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., LXVII, p. 19. Bruner (1893), in writing of this pygmy or grouse locust as Tettix granulatus Kirby, mentioned that it was "especially numerous northward." This species is represented in the Ne­ braska Museum collection by two specimens, a male and female, collected by Bruner at Fremont, in Dodge County. Hebard (1928) mentioned that Holt County, in northern Nebraska, was the southern limit of this species. SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Dodge County, Fremont, April 17, 1915, (L. Bruner), 1 3, 1 'i? 4 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STATE MUSEUM Tetrix acadicum acadicum (Scudder) 1875. Tettigidae acadica Scudder, Dawson's Rept. Geor. 49th Parallel, p. 345. 1876. Tettix acadicus Scudder, in Wheeler's Ann. Rept. Geogr. Surv. West of lOath Merid., App. JJ, p. 259, n. 49. 1929. Acrydium acadicum acadicum Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LXXXI, p. 320. A single male specimen of this species is in the Nebraska collection. It was collected in the extreme northwest corner of the state at a light. Bruner (1893) wrote of Tettix acadicus Scudder as follows: "A species that I imagine to be this insect is occasionally taken within the state northward." Hebard (1928) recorded this species as being found also at Halsey and (1925) stated that it is "Found usually on moist soils of sandy character." SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Sioux County, Monroe Canyon, August 7, 1908, (C. H. Gable), 1 J. Teirix ornaia (Say) 1824. Acrydium ornatum Say, Amer. Ent., I, pI. 5. 1920. Acrydium ornatum Blatchley, Orth. of Northeastern America, p. 165. This species of grouse locust is one of the most abundant in Nebraska. It has been found over the entire northern two­ thirds of the state. Thirty-seven males, forty females and eight nymphs have been collected between March 20 and October 24, with the majority being taken in April and May. These speci­ mens were found in such localities as Platte River sandpits, stone quarries, dry creek beds, and in marshy areas along creeks.
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