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Genus Schistocerca - Bird Grasshoppers

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
Class Insecta - Insects
Order Orthoptera - Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids
Suborder Caelifera - Grasshoppers
Family Acrididae - Short-horned Grasshoppers
Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae - Migratory Bird Locusts
Genus Schistocerca - Bird Grasshoppers

Species albolineata - White-lined Bird Grasshopper
Species alutacea - Leather-colored Bird Grasshopper
Species americana - American Bird Grasshopper
Species damnifica - Mischievous Bird Grasshopper
Species lineata - Spotted Bird Grasshopper
Species nitens - Gray Bird Grasshopper
Species obscura - Obscure Bird Grasshopper
Species rubiginosa - Rusty Bird Grasshopper
Species shoshone - Green Bird Grasshopper


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