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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae - Migratory Bird Locusts

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
Family Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)
Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Migratory Bird Locusts)
Other Common Names
Spur-throated Grasshoppers (applied only to subfamily Melanoplinae by some authors)
Bird Locusts
Numbers
Arnett (1) lists only 1 genus in this subfamily: Schistocerca.
See Also
Melanoplinae - Spur-throated Grasshoppers
Internet References
common name reference [Spur-throated Grasshoppers] plus list of species (U. of Wisconsin)
common name reference [Bird Locusts] plus key to genera in various other subfamilies (Orthoptera of the Northern Great Plains, North Dakota State U.)