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NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE LUBBER GRASSHOPPER, BRACHYSTOLA MAGNA (ORTHOPTERA: ROMALEIDAE), IN NEWFOUNDLAND1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ray F. Morris
Ray F. Morris
Affiliation:
Research Station, Agriculture Canada, St. John's West, Newfoundland A1E 3Y3
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On 20 April 1978, Mr. Paul Thompson, Program Co-ordinator, Food Production & Inspection Branch, Agriculture Canada, found a dead grasshopper in a meadow near the Canadian National Steamship Terminal at Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. The insect was identified by Dr. D. K. McE. Kevan, Department of Entomology, Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, as an adventive male lubber grasshopper, Brachystola magna (Girard). This is the first record of the lubber grasshopper in ~ewfoundland

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 113 , Issue 7 , July 1981 , pp. 659 - 660
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1981

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References

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