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''Melanoplus packardii'', known generally as the "Packard's grasshopper", is a species of spur-throated grasshoppers in the family 
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Melanoplus packardii''
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. Melanoplinae Insects described in 1878 {{melanoplus-stub
Acrididae
Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedi ...
. It is found in North America.
References
* Capinera J.L, Scott R.D., Walker T.J. (2004). ''Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States''. Cornell University Press. * Otte, Daniel (1995). "Grasshoppers cridomorphaC". ''Orthoptera Species File 4'', 518.Further reading
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Melanoplus packardii''
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press. Melanoplinae Insects described in 1878 {{melanoplus-stub