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Descriptor English: Grasshoppers
Descriptor Spanish: Saltamontes
Descriptor saltamontes
Scope note: Ortópteros hervíboros que poseen las patas traseras adaptadas para saltar. Hay dos familias principales: Acrididae y Romaleidae. Algunos de los géneros más frecuentes son: Melanoplus, el saltamonte más común, Conocephalus, saltamontes de las praderas orientales y Pterophylla, los verdaderos saltamontes americanos de chillido agudo (cigarra).
Descriptor Portuguese: Gafanhotos
Descriptor French: Sauterelles
Entry term(s): Acrididae
Grasshopper
Locust
Locusts
Romaleidae
Tree number(s): B01.050.500.131.617.678.369
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006110
Scope note: Plant-eating orthopterans having hindlegs adapted for jumping. There are two main families: Acrididae and Romaleidae. Some of the more common genera are: Melanoplus, the most common grasshopper; Conocephalus, the eastern meadow grasshopper; and Pterophylla, the true katydid.
Annotation: do not use /drug eff for insecticides: TN 111
Allowable Qualifiers: AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Insects (1966-1971)
Online Note: use GRASSHOPPERS to search LOCUSTS 1972-77
History Note: 72; LOCUSTS was see under GRASSHOPPERS 1972-77
DeCS ID: 6261
Unique ID: D006110
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1972/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Grasshoppers - Preferred
Concept UI M0009620
Scope note Plant-eating orthopterans having hindlegs adapted for jumping. There are two main families: Acrididae and Romaleidae. Some of the more common genera are: Melanoplus, the most common grasshopper; Conocephalus, the eastern meadow grasshopper; and Pterophylla, the true katydid.
Preferred term Grasshoppers
Entry term(s) Grasshopper
Romaleidae - Narrower
Concept UI M0009623
Preferred term Romaleidae
Locusts - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0009621
Preferred term Locusts
Entry term(s) Locust
Acrididae - Narrower
Concept UI M0009622
Preferred term Acrididae



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