Schistocerca pallens (Thunberg 1815)
 
Geographic distribution
Distribution
No economic damages registered
  • Argentina
    • Jujuy
    • Misiones
Other distribution
From Mexico and the Antilles to northern Argentina.
 
  • Gryllus pallens Thunberg 1815
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 pallens. Considered as a pest of some tropical crops in Mexico, Cuba, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Surinam, Venezuela and Brazil.
Polyphagous.
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  • HARVEY. 1979. Hybridization studies in the Schistocerca americana complex. I. The specific status of the Central American locust. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 12:349-355.
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  • COPR. 1982. The locust and grasshopper agricultural manual. Centre for Overseas Pest Research, London, 690 pp.
  • BARRIENTOS. 1995. The present state of the locust and grasshopper problem in Brazil. Journal of Orthoptera Research 4:61-64
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  • SILVEIRA ET AL.. 1998. Polymorphism of the grasshopper Schistocerca pallens (Thunberg) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and its natural pathogen Metarhizium flavoviride Gams and Rozsypal (Hyphomycetes), revealed by RAPD analysis. Annais da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 27:91-99
  • XAVIER-SANTOS ET AL.. 1999. Infectivity of Metarhizium flavoviride Gams & Rozsypal (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) against the grasshopper Schistocerca pallens (Thunberg) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the laboratory. Annais da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 28:359-363.
  • SONG. 2004. Revisión of the Alutacea Group of genus Schistocerca (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(3):420-436.
  • SONG. 2004b. On the origin of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Cyrtacanthacridinae). Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences Series B. 271(1548):1641-1648
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