{{short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Slow Mountain Grasshopper - Bradynotes obesa, near Bassetts, California.jpg | image_caption = ''Bradynotes obesa'' | taxon = Bradynotes | authority = Scudder, 1870 }}

'''''Bradynotes''''' is a genus of spur-throated grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There is at least one described species in ''Bradynotes'', ''B.&nbsp;obesa'', also known as the "slow mountain grasshopper" and "mountain lubber grasshopper". It is found in North America, in the western United States and northwestern Mexico.<ref name=itis/><ref name=catlife/><ref name=gbif/><ref name=bugref/><ref name=xcit3/>

There are six subspecies of ''Bradynotes obesa'':<ref name=xcit3/> * ''Bradynotes obesa caurus'' <small>Scudder, 1897</small> * ''Bradynotes obesa deplanata'' <small>Hebard, 1919</small> * ''Bradynotes obesa kaibab'' <small>Hebard, 1919</small> * ''Bradynotes obesa obesa'' <small>(Thomas, 1872)</small> * ''Bradynotes obesa opima'' <small>Scudder, 1880</small> * ''Bradynotes obesa referta'' <small>Scudder, 1897</small>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=''Bradynotes'' Report | url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=657652 | website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System | accessdate=2018-05-15 }}</ref> <ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Browse ''Bradynotes'' | url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/11f631447def753c725d80bdd304028c | website=Catalogue of Life | accessdate=2018-05-15 }}</ref> <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Bradynotes'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1704765 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2018-05-15 }}</ref> <ref name=bugref> {{Cite web| title=''Bradynotes'' Genus Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/157492 | website=BugGuide.net | accessdate=2018-05-15 }}</ref> <ref name=xcit3> {{Cite web | accessdate = 2018-05-15 | last1 = Otte | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Cigliano | first2 = Maria Marta | last3 = Braun | first3 = Holger | last4 = Eades | first4 = David C. | title = Orthoptera Species File Online | url = http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/ }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H. Jr. | date = 2000 | title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC | publisher = CRC Press | edition = 2nd | isbn = 0-8493-0212-9 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Bland | first1 = Roger | date = 2003 | title = The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets | publisher = Michigan State University Extension | isbn = 978-1565250178 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Capinera | first1 = J.L | last2 = Scott | first2 = R.D. | last3 = Walker | first3 = T.J. | date = 2004 | title = Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States | publisher = Cornell University Press | isbn = 978-0-8014-8948-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetogras0000capi }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Knowles | first1 = L.Lacey | last2 = Otte | first2 = D. | date = 2000 | title = Phylogenetic analysis of montane grasshoppers from western North America (genus Melanoplus, Acrididae: Melanoplinae) | journal = Annals of the Entomological Society of America | volume = 93 | pages = 421–431 | doi = 10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[0421:PAOMGF]2.0.CO;2 | doi-access = free }} {{refend}}

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Category:Melanoplinae Category:Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder Category:Acrididae genera {{melanoplinae-stub}}