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Tettigidea lateralis, known generally as black-sided pygmy grasshopper, is a species of pygmy grasshopper in the family Tetrigidae. Other common names include the black-sided grouse locust and sedge grouse locust .
The Carolina Locust [6] is a short-horned grasshopper (Family Acrididae) found in most of the United States and other parts of North America [7] (Fig 1). These grasshoppers can be anywhere between 32 and 58 mm, with females being larger than males. [8] Their color can range from grey to brown with contrasting black and yellow-white hind wings.
In the desert locust and the migratory locust, for example, the gregaria nymphs become darker with strongly contrasting yellow and black markings, they grow larger, and have a longer nymphal period; the adults are larger with different body proportions, less sexual dimorphism, and higher metabolic rates; they mature more rapidly and start ...
Schistocerca americana is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae known commonly as the American grasshopper [3] and American bird grasshopper. [4] It is native to North America, where it occurs in the eastern United States , Mexico , and the Bahamas . [ 3 ]
Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera.The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae.
Orthoptera (from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós) 'straight' and πτερά (pterá) 'wings') is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.
Dissosteira carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) – Carolina Grasshopper, Black-winged Grasshopper (also called Road-duster) [2] Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas, 1872) – High Plains Grasshopper; Dissosteira pictipennis Bruner, 1905 – California Rose-Winged Grasshopper; Dissosteira spurcata Saussure, 1884 – Spurcate Grasshopper
Dissosteira longipennis Conservation status Secure (NatureServe) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Orthoptera Suborder: Caelifera Family: Acrididae Tribe: Trimerotropini Genus: Dissosteira Species: D. longipennis Binomial name Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas, 1872) Dissosteira longipennis, the high plains locust, is a species ...