Schistocerca cancellata cf. cancellata - Bird Locust (Serville, 1838)

High Above the Clouds

Description: Schistocerca cancellata is a locust popularly known as "bird locust" in the order Orthoptera, suborder Caelifera, infraorder Acrididea (syn: Acridomorpha; Tetrigidea), superfamily Acridoidea, family Acrididae, subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae and tribe Cyrtacanthacridini. Apparently and doubtfully, there are two subspecies are present: S. cancellata cancellata and S. cancellata paranensis (Burmeister, H., 1861), and I'm unaware on the distribution of the latter.

They are polyphagous and feed on a wide variety of wild and cultivated plants. It is one of the few species of Schistocerca that are truly swarming and can form dense migrating swarms through an extreme form of density-dependend phenotypic plasticity, known as locust phase polyphenism. The wings are lacy and the overall coloring is brown in multiple shades. It measured around 5 to 5,5cm in length. Although OSF ("http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/common/editTaxon/Distribution/ShowDistribution.aspx?TaxonNameID=1112355") registers this locust in wider numbers in the South of Brazil, it is known that the great migrative tendencies of these Orthoptera leave room for doubt on a true status of distribution. Records point the existence of specimens in the Northwest of Brazil, where this one was found. I will try to provide a source eventually as this is quite hard to find. Records point S. cancellata is adapted to arid or semi-arid regions.

Further informations on the breeding habits, overall anatomy and behaviour will be appreciated and credited.

Identified by Kátia Matiotti. (www.facebook.com/katia.matiotti)

Source:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529561/

PROJECT NOAH (Português): www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1526869319

Taken in: Brasil / Ceará / Fortaleza / Estância (show map)

Taken on: March 31, 2018

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