{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Grasshoppers World (7687735824).jpg | image_caption = ''Schistocerca cf. americana'' | taxon = Schistocerca | authority = Stål, 1873 | display_parents = 3 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = see text | synonyms = }}
'''''Schistocerca'''''<ref>Stål C (1873) ''Recensio Orthopterorum. Revue critique des Orthoptères décrits par Linné, De Geer et Thunberg'' 1: 64.</ref> is a genus of grasshoppers, commonly called '''bird grasshoppers''', many of which swarm as locusts. The best known species is probably the desert locust (''S. gregaria''), and trans-Atlantic flight may explain the biogeography of some locust species.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lovejoy |first=N. R. |year=2006 |title=Ancient trans-Atlantic flight explains locust biogeography: molecular phylogenetics of ''Schistocerca'' |journal=Proc Biol Sci |volume=273 |issue=1588 |pages=767–774 |doi= 10.1098/rspb.2005.3381|pmc=1560218 |pmid=16618668|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
== Species == The Orthoptera Species File<ref name = OSF>[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1112308 Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Schistocerca'' Stål, 1873 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 8 March 2020)]</ref> lists: {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *''Schistocerca albolineata'' (Thomas, 1875) – white-lined bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca alutacea'' (Harris, 1841) – leather-colored bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca americana'' (Drury, 1773) – American bird grasshopper – '''type species''' *''Schistocerca beckeri'' (Dirsh, 1974) *''Schistocerca bivittata'' (Stål, 1873) *''Schistocerca braziliensis'' (Dirsh, 1974) *''Schistocerca brevis'' (Rehn, 1913) *''Schistocerca camerata'' (Scudder, 1899) *''Schistocerca cancellata'' (Serville, 1838) – South American locust *''Schistocerca carneipes'' (Serville, 1838) *''Schistocerca caribbeana'' (Dirsh, 1974) *''Schistocerca centralis'' (Dirsh, 1974) *''Schistocerca ceratiola'' (Hubbell & Walker, 1928) – rosemary grasshopper *''Schistocerca cohni'' (Song, 2006) *''Schistocerca damnifica'' (Saussure, 1861) – mischievous bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca diversipes'' (Hebard, 1923) *''Schistocerca flavofasciata'' (De Geer, 1773) *''Schistocerca gorgona'' (Dirsh, 1974) *''Schistocerca gregaria'' (Forskål, 1775) – desert locust *''Schistocerca impleta'' (Walker, 1870) *''Schistocerca interrita'' (Scudder, 1899) *''Schistocerca lineata'' (Scudder, 1899) – spotted bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca literosa'' (Walker, 1870) – small painted locust *''Schistocerca magnifica'' (Bruner, 1913) *''Schistocerca matogrosso'' (Dirsh, 1974) *''Schistocerca melanocera'' (Stål, 1861) – large painted locust *''Schistocerca nitens'' (Thunberg, 1815) – grey bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca obscura'' (Fabricius, 1798) – obscure bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca orinoco'' (Dirsh, 1974) *''Schistocerca pallens'' (Thunberg, 1815) *''Schistocerca philippina'' (Navás, 1904) *''Schistocerca piceifrons'' (Walker, 1870) – Central American locust *''Schistocerca quisqueya'' (Rehn & Hebard, 1938) *''Schistocerca rubiginosa'' (Harris, 1862) – rusty bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca serialis'' (Thunberg, 1815) *''Schistocerca shoshone'' (Thomas, 1873) – green bird grasshopper *''Schistocerca socorro'' (Dirsh, 1974) {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Wikispecies-inline}} *{{Commons category-inline}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090224004943/http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/field/amhopper.htm ''Schistocerca americana''] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site *[http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/misc/rosemary_grasshopper.htm ''Schistocerca ceratiola''] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site *[http://www.schistocerca.org/ ''Schistocerca'' Information Site]
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Category:Acrididae genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Stål Category:Cyrtacanthacridinae