Dissosteira longipennis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Acrididae |
Tribe: | Trimerotropini |
Genus: | Dissosteira |
Species: | D. longipennis
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Binomial name | |
Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas, 1872)
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Dissosteira longipennis, the high plains locust, is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. [2] [3] [4] [5] It is found in North America. [2] [6] During the 1930s, it formed enormous swarms and caused significant damage to crops in the western United States, [7] but it is now very rare and has not swarmed since. However rare, the species is still extant, [8] unlike the Rocky Mountain locust, the only other species of locust found in North America.
...the High Plains locust (Dissosteira longipennis), which swept through the early 1930s...
The High Plains locust still exists, but it's uncommon, just another innocent-looking grasshopper munching away on plants.
Dissosteira longipennis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Acrididae |
Tribe: | Trimerotropini |
Genus: | Dissosteira |
Species: | D. longipennis
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Binomial name | |
Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas, 1872)
|
Dissosteira longipennis, the high plains locust, is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae. [2] [3] [4] [5] It is found in North America. [2] [6] During the 1930s, it formed enormous swarms and caused significant damage to crops in the western United States, [7] but it is now very rare and has not swarmed since. However rare, the species is still extant, [8] unlike the Rocky Mountain locust, the only other species of locust found in North America.
...the High Plains locust (Dissosteira longipennis), which swept through the early 1930s...
The High Plains locust still exists, but it's uncommon, just another innocent-looking grasshopper munching away on plants.