Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae > Melanoplus > Melanoplus confusus

Melanoplus confusus (Little Pasture Locust; Pasture Grasshopper)

Synonyms: Caloptenus minor (heterotypic); Melanoplus mutatus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Edwin S. George Reserve 1297 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Solidago nemoralis (Gray Goldenrod)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pardalophora apiculata (Coral-winged Locust)1

Predators

Scleropogon neglectus[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceracia dentata[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1The Food-habits and Biology of Acrididae in an Old-field Community in Southeastern Michigan, S. K. Gangwere, F. C. Evans, and M. L. Nelson, The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1976)
2Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0