Dissosteira longipennis
Dissosteira longipennis, the high plains locust, is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1][5] During the 1930s, it formed enormous swarms and caused significant damage to crops in the western United States, but it is now very rare, and has not swarmed since. With the extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust, it is the only extant locust in North America.
| Dissosteira longipennis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Acrididae |
| Subfamily: | Oedipodinae |
| Genus: | Dissosteira |
| Species: | D. longipennis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas, 1872) | |
References
- "Dissosteira longipennis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- "Dissosteira longipennis species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- "Dissosteira longipennis". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- "Dissosteira longipennis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
- Otte, Daniel; Cigliano, Maria Marta; Braun, Holger; Eades, David C. "Orthoptera Species File Online". Retrieved 2018-05-05.
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