1) Arthropod genus 2) Genus melanoplus 
{italic title} Melanoplus is a large genus of grasshoppers. They are the typical large grasshoppers (and in some cases migratory `locusts`) in North America. A common name is spur-throat grasshoppers (also `spurthroat` or `spur-throated grasshoppers`), but this more typically refers to members of the related subfamily Catantopinae. The large...
(from the article `short-horned grasshopper`) ...called the buffalo grasshopper because of its size, has much smaller, pinkish wings. The slender grasshopper (Leptysma marginicollis), found in ...
[n] - New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers
genus Melanoplus noun New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers