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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Migratory Bird Locusts (Cyrtacanthacridinae)

Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae - Migratory Bird Locusts

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Mischievous Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca damnifica - female Grasshopper - Schistocerca damnifica - male What kind of grasshopper is this beauty? - Schistocerca obscura - female Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca americana unknown grasshopper - Schistocerca American Bird Grasshopper - Schistocerca americana White-lined Bird Grasshopper Schistocerca albolineata - Schistocerca albolineata - male Freshly Molted Grasshopper Nymph? - Schistocerca
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orthoptera Species File Online lists as Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, W.F., 1902.
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.)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by Richard Leung on 11 March, 2005 - 6:42pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Tony D, Robin McLeod
Last updated 6 March, 2007 - 12:18pm

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