Locusta christii = Locusta migratoria (migratory locust)

Query: Migratory grasshopper

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Subject:	Locusta christii = Locusta migratoria (migratory locust)
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Locusta christii = Locusta migratoria (migratory locust)

illustration from British Entomology by John Curtis. Locusta christii Valid name Locusta migratoria
Date 1840s
Source https://archive.org/stream/britishentomolog03curt/britishentomolog03curt#page/n29/mode/1up
Author John Curtis
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Britishentomologyvolume3Plate608.jpg

The migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) is the most widespread locust species of the family Acrididae. Locusta migratoria occurs throughout Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Many other species of grasshopper with gregarious and possibly migratory behaviour are referred to as 'locusts' in the vernacular, including the widely distributed desert locust.

Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Tribe: Locustini
Genus: Locusta
Species: Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
- Acridium migratorium
- Acridium plorans
- Pachytylus australis (Saussure, 1884)
- Pachytylus migratorius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pachytylus migratorioides (Fairmaire & L.J. Reiche, 1849)

Migratory grasshopper
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