Abundance: 1.60 to 85.33% (median 34.21%)
Latitudinal range: 24.2° to 52.4°Habitats: desert/xeric shrubland (2), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (2), temperate coniferous forest (4), temperate savanna (18), tropical/subtropical coniferous forest (1)
Found in 27 samples
Canada: Provost, Coalhurst, Stavely, Onefour Research Substation, Chatterton (1944)
Mexico: Área Natural Protegida Cerro Potosí, Quevedo (dunas)
United States: Jefferson City, Odessa and Gibbon (06:00, 2006), Comanche National Grassland (unburned, 1999), Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Pawnee National Grassland (on colony), Pawnee National Grassland (off-colony), Hal and Fern Cooper Wildlife Management Area, Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest (Meadow 1), Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest (Meadow 2), Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest (Meadow 3), Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station (native prairie), Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station (Kentucky bluegrass), Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station (orchard brome), Edmond (Station I), Edmond (Station II), Edmond (Station III), Hog Island, Savannah River Site (2011), Little Missouri National Grasslands (2001), Little Missouri National Grasslands (2002)
See also Melanoplus alpinus, Melanoplus angustipennis, Melanoplus apalachicolae, Melanoplus arizonae, Melanoplus attenuatus, Melanoplus bivittatus, Melanoplus bowditchi/flavidus, Melanoplus bruneri, Melanoplus confusus, Melanoplus dawsoni, Melanoplus differentialis, Melanoplus femurrubrum, Melanoplus foedus, Melanoplus gladstoni, Melanoplus impudicus, Melanoplus infantilis, Melanoplus keeleri, Melanoplus kennicotti, Melanoplus lakinus, Melanoplus mexicanus, Melanoplus occidentalis, Melanoplus oregonensis, Melanoplus packardii, Melanoplus reflexus, Melanoplus regalis, Melanoplus sanguinipes, Melanoplus scudderi, Melanoplus sp., Melanoplus sp. nigrescens group, Melanoplus spp., Melanoplus spp. 2