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species Schistocerca americana (Drury, 1773)

• Common name(s):  American Bird Locust
• Images:
• Links:
  • The Linnean Collections (The Linnean Society of London)
  • Specimens in the Natural History Museum London
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (40):
  • Drury. 1773[1770]. Illustrations of Natural History, Wherein are exhibited Upwards of Two Hundred and Twenty Figures of Exotic Insects 1:128   >> Note: Plate XLIX Fig. 2, name in index >> Libellula americanus    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:76198
  • Scudder, S.H. 1862. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 7(3):466   >> Acridium americanum    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:50744
  • Scudder, S.H. 1869. Smithson. misc. Coll. 8:4   >> Acridium americanum
  • Beutenmüller. 1894. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 6(Article XII):304   >> Acridium americanum
  • Walker, E.M. 1897. Canadian Ent. 29:89   >> Schistocerca americana    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:50742
  • Scudder, S.H. 1899. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. 34(17):447   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Walker, E.M. 1899. Canadian Ent. 31(2):29   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Scudder, S.H. 1901. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 6:6   >> Acridium americanum
  • Caudell. 1903. Proc. U.S. Nation. Mus. 26:796   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 29:133   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1903. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 29(1):15   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Morse. 1904. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 18:38   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1905. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 57:39   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Rehn, J.A.G. 1906. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 22:116   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Kirby, W.F. 1910. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2):461   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Rehn, J.A.G. & Hebard. 1912. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 64(2):257   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Hebard. 1915. Entomol. News 26:406   >> Note: synonym (L. americana Drury 1775 preoccupied by L. americana Linnaeus 1758) >> Schistocerca serialis
  • Bruner, L. 1920[1919]. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 13:83   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Hebard. 1925. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 51:286   >> Schistocerca americana americana
  • Hebard. 1932. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 58(3):278   >> Schistocerca americana americana
  • Hebard. 1934. Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist. 20:188   >> Schistocerca americana americana
  • Liebermann. 1939. Rev. Soc. Entomol. Argent. 10:204   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1964. Canadian Ent. 96:1555 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1967. Proc. Ent. Soc. Ontario 97:46   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Dirsh. 1974. Ser. Entomol. 10:45 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Jago, Antoniou & P. Scott. 1979. Systematic Ent. 4(2):140 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Harvey. 1979. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 12(4):354 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Harvey. 1981. Acrida 10(2):65 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1983. Lyman ent. Mus. Res. Lab. 13(1):717 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada 14:330   >> Schistocerca amercana
  • Grunshaw, H. Guermouche, S. Guermouche, Jago, Julien, E. Knowles & F. Perez. 1990. Jour. Chem. Ecol. 16(10):2835-2858 >> Schistocerca americana americana
  • Richman, Lightfoot, C.A. Sutherland & Ferguson. 1993. New Mex. Coop. Extens. Service Handbook 7:1-112   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Capinera, C.W. Scherer & Squitier. 2001. Grasshoppers of Florida 121   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Bland. 2003. The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets 76 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 144, Plate 31 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Song, H. 2004. Proc. Entom. Soc. Washington 106(1):181-191   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Rivera García. 2006. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 22(3):142   >> Schistocerca americana
  • Capinera. 2008. Encyclopedia of Entomology 1:141-144 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Barrientos-Lozano, Rocha-Sánchez, Buzzetti, Méndez-Gómez & Horta-Vega. 2013. Saltamontes y esperanzas del noreste de México (Insecta: Orthoptera). Guía ilustrada 171 >> Schistocerca americana
  • Foquet, A.A. Castellanos & H. Song. 2021. Scientific Reports 11(11925)   >> Schistocerca americana
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Northern America, Southeastern U.S.A., Georgia
  • Kind of type:  neotype
  • Specimen category:  female
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym ambiguum (Thomas, 1872)
• synonym approximans (Walker, 1870)
• synonym interrupta (Walker, 1870)
• synonym rusticus (Fabricius, 1775)

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