A Manual of the Grasshoppers of New Mexico - Orthoptera: Acrididae and Romaleidae, Handbook No. 7

Series

Handbooks

Collection name

NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1889-Present

Date

1993-09

Decade

1990s

Author

Richman, David B.

Lightfoot, D. C.

Sutherland, Carol A.

Ferguson, D. J.

Contributor

Black, Lonnie

Liesner, Creighton

Subject (LCSH)

Grasshoppers--New Mexico

Subject (NALT)

grasshoppers

New Mexico

Table of contents

Introduction

How to use this book

General morphology and biology

Life cycles

Natural history

Behavior

Population dynamics

Distribution of grasshopper species in New Mexico

Management of grasshopper populations

History of grasshopper problems in New Mexico

Biological and economic basis for suppression of grasshoppers

Estimation of grasshopper densities

Insecticidal control of grasshoppers

Biological controls of grasshoppers

Cooperative grasshopper control programs

Keys to New Mexico grasshoppers

Adults of the short-horned grasshopper families & subfamilies

Lubber grasshoppers (Romaleidae)

Bird grasshoppers (Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae)

Spur-throated grasshoppers (Acrididae: Melanophlinae)

Slant-faced grasshoppers (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae)

Band-winged grasshoppers (Acrididae: Oedipodinae)

Annotated alphabetical list of the grasshoppers of New Mexico

Glossary

References

Index to the keys

Extent

124 pages

Notes

Handbook containing a catalog of known grasshopper fauna in New Mexico, to aid in identification.

Original publisher

New Mexico State University

Cooperative Extension Service

Place of publication

Las Cruces (N.M.)

Frequency

frequency varies

Digital publisher

New Mexico State University Library

Source

NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES)

Language

English

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Medium (AAT)

newsletters

Genre (AAT)

periodicals

Access rights

Open to re-use

Metadata cataloger

Page, Kristen

Schneider, Ingrid

Roth, Michael

Digital identifier

UAAPH000007.pdf