Acrididae


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Noun1.Acrididae - short-horned grasshoppersAcrididae - short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
order Orthoptera, Orthoptera - grasshoppers and locusts; crickets
acridid, short-horned grasshopper - grasshopper with short antennae
genus Locusta, Locusta - a genus of Acrididae
genus Melanoplus, Melanoplus - New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers
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Locusts are a species of short-horned grasshoppers family Acrididae that have a swarming phase.
Locusts are certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family of Acrididae. The locusts that swarmed into Sindh are believed to be mainly desert locusts.
Insecticidal activity of gibberellic acid against Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) and Locusta migratoria migratoria (Orthoptera, Acrididae).
It is with this latter point in mind that the usage of a bee hotel by grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) was studied in an urban grassland in the UK.
The habitat functions of vegetation in relation to the behaviour of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (Acrididae: Orthoptera)--a study in Mauritania (West Africa).
[21] elucidated the FA contents of three Orthopterans, Acheta domesticus (Gryllidae family), Conocephalus discolor (Tettigoniidae family), and Chorthippus parallelus (Acrididae family), by utilizing GC-FID.
Cycle biologique Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal, 1775) et de Locusta migratoria (Linne,1768) (Orthoptera, Acrididae).
4 3 Lepidoptera sp.3 (immature) 2 2 Neuroptera Chrysopidae Chrysoperla externa 1 1 Hemerobiidae Hemerobiidae sp.1 2 2 Orthoptera Acrididae Acrididae sp.1 11 6 Acrididae sp.2 12 3 Gryllidae Gryllus assimilis 71 13 Thysanoptera Thysanoptera sp.1 2 1 Araneae Araneidae Araneidae sp.1 1 1 Corinnidae Corinna sp.
Nymphs oiStaiimrhectus longicomis Giglio-Tos (n=225), Laplatacris dispar Rhen, 1939 (n=346), Dichroplns elongatus Giglio-Tos, 1894 (n=358) anAMetaleptea brevicomis (L.) (n=251) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) were collected from the Pampean region.