These are the currently available species profiles on HopperWiki in various stages of completion (see highlighted page gallery and exhaustive list below). One ambitious goal of HopperWiki is to ultimately have a "home page" for every species of Orthoptera. These home pages will act as syntheses and launch points to any existing resources for that species. If you have any information you would like to share or you would like to see a species profile that you don't now see please reach out.

Insects in the order Orthoptera (from the greek orthos + pteron "straight wing") are a diverse group with an evolutionary history of 300 million years. The order contains well over 20,000 species of insects colloquially known as as grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, katydids, and wētā. They are found throughout the world and are especially diverse in warm areas where they can be, at times, strikingly abundant. Some species can become tremendous agricultural pests that threaten food security around the world. For example, locusts are highly migratory and capable of phase polyphenism a classic case of phenotypic plasticity where an individual can modify its phenotype in response to a changing environment.

Locusts are one of a handful of grasshopper species (roughly around 19) that can alter their morphology, physiology, and behavior as they shift from a cryptic and solitary lifestyle to a highly mobile gregarious one. This gregarious form ultimately results in the dramatic outbreaks of billions of swarming locusts migrating across borders, destroying crops, and posing a complex transboundary challenge that requires coordination across boundaries, sectors, and disciplines.

Significant locust species around the world

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  Australian Plague Locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)
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  Bombay locust (Patanga succincta)
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  Brown locust (Locustana pardalina)
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  Central American locust (Schistocerca piceifrons)
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  Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria)
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  Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus)
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  Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria)
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  Mongolian locust (Oedaleus asiaticus)
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  Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus)
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  Red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata)
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  Sahelian tree locust (Anacridium melanorhodon)
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  Senegalese grasshopper (Oedaleus senegalensis)
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  Siberian locust (Gomphocerus sibiricus)
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  South American locust (Schistocerca cancellata)
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  Spur-throated locust (Austracris guttulosa)
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  Sudan plague locust (Aiolopus simulatrix)
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  Yellow-spined bamboo locust (Ceracris kiangsu)
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  Yellow-winged locust (Gastrimargus musicus)

Significant grasshopper species in the United States and Canada

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  Bigheaded grasshopper (Aulocara elliotti)
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  Clear-winged grasshopper (Camnula pellucida)
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  Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus)
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  Bruner spurthroated grasshopper (Melanoplus bruneri)
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  Packard grasshopper (Melanoplus packardii)
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  Migratory grasshopper (Melanoplus sanguinipes)

Full list of species