Brown‐spotted locust (Cyrtacanthacris tatarica)

Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
Taxonomic classification
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Subfamily:	Cyrtacanthacridinae
Tribe:	Cyrtacanthacridini
Genus:	Cyrtacanthacris
Scientific name
Cyrtacanthacris tatarica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geography
Native countries:
Democratic Republic of the Congo Eswatini Ethiopia China Pakistan South Sudan Kenya Laos Myanmar Nepal Oman Rwanda Sri Lanka Angola Bangladesh Botswana Madagascar Malawi India Mozambique Namibia South Africa Cambodia Saudi Arabia Thailand Uganda Tanzania Vietnam

The Brown‐spotted locust (Cyrtacanthacris tatarica) is a species of grasshopper in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (migratory bird locusts).

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Taxonomy

For full nomenclature and taxonomic details of this taxon, see Orthoptera Species File

Subspecies

• Cyrtacanthacris tatarica tatarica (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cyrtacanthacris tatarica abyssinica Uvarov, 1941

Biology and ecology

Ecology at a glanceCyrtacanthacris tatarica

Activity

Diurnal

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Specimen contributors for this species

Bionomia links specimen records in GBIF to the people who collected and identified them. Each list shows the top 20 for this species.

Collected by

People who collected specimens of this species in the field.

• Haneesh K M — 12 specimens collected
• Angelo Andrianiaina — 10 specimens collected
• Anthony G Rebelo — 5 specimens collected

• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 5 specimens collected
• SONU KUMAR — 2 specimens collected
• Karan Thakkar — 2 specimens collected
• Manoj Karingamadathil — 2 specimens collected
• Thilina Hettiarachchi — 2 specimens collected
• Oleg Kosterin — 1 specimen collected
• Marco Schmidt — 1 specimen collected
• Louis AUREGLIA — 1 specimen collected
• Claude Kolwelter — 1 specimen collected
• Guenther Eichhorn — 1 specimen collected
• Piotr Łukasik — 1 specimen collected
• Vijay Barve — 1 specimen collected
• Wich'yanan Limparungpatthanakij — 1 specimen collected
• Bhalchandra Pujari — 1 specimen collected
• Unnikrishnan MP — 1 specimen collected
• Manuel Richard Popp — 1 specimen collected
• Prashanth N Srinivas — 1 specimen collected

Identified by

People who determined the taxonomic identity of specimens of this species.

• 태우 김 — 22 specimens identified
• Angelo Andrianiaina — 10 specimens identified
• Haneesh K M — 7 specimens identified

• David Marcelo Torres Arizaga — 4 specimens identified
• Thilina Hettiarachchi — 3 specimens identified
• SONU KUMAR — 2 specimens identified
• Vijay Barve — 2 specimens identified
• Wich'yanan Limparungpatthanakij — 1 specimen identified
• Karan Thakkar — 1 specimen identified
• Unnikrishnan MP — 1 specimen identified
• Prashanth N Srinivas — 1 specimen identified

References

Taxon identifiers

BOLD SystemsCatalogue of LifeEncyclopedia of LifeEPPOGBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)Google Knowledge GraphiNaturalistIRMNGNCBI taxonomyOpen Tree of LifeOrthoptera Species File ID (old version)TAXREFUMLS CUIXeno-canto