Melanoplus forcipatus is a species of grasshopper in the subfamily Melanoplinae ("spur-throated grasshoppers"), in the family Acrididae ("short-horned grasshoppers").

[1][2] The species is known generally as the "toothcercus shortwing grasshopper" or "broad cercus scrub grasshopper".

[3] It is endemic to scrub and sandhill communities in Highlands and Orange counties in Florida.

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