Schistocerca

Taxobox
name = "Schistocerca"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = desert locust
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Orthoptera
subordo = Caelifera
familia = Acrididae
genus = "Schistocerca"
genus_authority = Stål, 1873
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text.

"Schistocerca" is a genus of grasshoppers, many of which swarm as locusts. The best known species is probably the desert locust, "S. gregaria". There are around 50 other species. [Lovejoy, N.R., et al. (2006). [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1560218 Ancient trans-Atlantic flight explains locust biogeography: molecular phylogenetics of "Schistocerca"] . "Proc Biol Sci" 273(1588) 767-74.]

Species include:
*"Schistocerca albolineata"
*"Schistocerca alutacea"
*"Schistocerca americana" - American locust
*"Schistocerca camerata"
*"Schistocerca cancellata"
*"Schistocerca ceratiola"
*"Schistocerca damnifica"
*"Schistocerca emarginata"
*"Schistocerca flavofasciata"
*"Schistocerca gregaria" - desert locust
*"Schistocerca impleta"
*"Schistocerca lineata"
*"Schistocerca literosa"
*"Schistocerca melanocera"
*"Schistocerca nitens" - gray bird grasshopper
*"Schistocerca obscura"
*"Schistocerca pallens"
*"Schistocerca piceifrons"
*"Schistocerca quisqueya"
*"Schistocerca rubiginosa"
*"Schistocerca shoshone"

External links

*ITIS|ID=102224
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/amhopper.htm American grasshopper] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site

References