Schistocerca

Schistocerca
Schistocerca cf. americana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Tribe: Cyrtacanthacridini
Genus: Schistocerca
Stål, 1873
Species

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Schistocerca[1] is a genus of grasshoppers, commonly called bird grasshoppers, many of which swarm as locusts. The best known species is probably the desert locust (S. gregaria) and trans-Atlantic flight may explain the biogeography of some locust species.[2]

  1. ^ Stål C (1873) Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg 1: 64.
  2. ^ Lovejoy, N. R.; et al. (2006). "Ancient trans-Atlantic flight explains locust biogeography: molecular phylogenetics of Schistocerca". Proc Biol Sci. 273 (1588): 767–774. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3381. PMC 1560218. PMID 16618668.