Species info
Classification > Superfamily Acridoidea > Family Acrididae > Subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae > Genus Schistocerca
Schistocerca nitens nitens (Thunberg 1815)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Catamarca
    • Chaco
    • Corrientes
    • Formosa
    • Jujuy
    • Misiones
    • Salta
    • Tucumán
Other distribution
The Americas from California to northern Argentina.
 
Synonyms
  • Gryllus nitens Thunberg 1815
  • Gryllus lividus Thunberg 1815
Observations
Only the synonyms that have been cited for Argentina are mentionated. See Otte (1995) and OSF (Orthoptera Species File Online, http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/) for complete list of the numerous synonyms used for Schistocerca nitens nitens.. Minor damages have been registered in parts of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad, Brazil and Peru.
Host plants
Polyphagous.
Links
References
  • THUNBERG. 1815a. Acrydii descriptio. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Uppsaliensis 7:157-162.:236.
  • THUNBERG. 1824. Grylli monographia, illustrata. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg 3:390-430, pl. 14.:102.
  • DIRSH. 1974. Genus Schistocerca (Acridomorpha, Insecta). Series Entomologica, vol. 10, W.Junk, The Hague, vii + 238 pp.
  • COPR. 1982. The locust and grasshopper agricultural manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • OTTE. 1995. Grasshoppers [Acridomorpha] C. Orthoptera Species File, The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 4:46
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