Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca sp)

About Bird Grasshopper (Schistocerca sp)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Arthropods
• Class: Insects
• Order: Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets
• Family: Short-horned Grasshoppers

Schistocerca is a genus of grasshoppers, commonly called bird grasshoppers, many of which swarm as locusts. The best known species is probably the desert locust, and trans-Atlantic flight may explain the biogeography of some locust species.