Southern Africa

Southern Africa
Southern Africa is within:
Region:	Africa
Subregion:	Sub-Saharan Africa

Countries in this intermediate region (5)

Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa

Species gallery

• Highlighted species for Southern Africa
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  Chrotogonus hemipterus
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  Tropical house cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)
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  Slender green-winged grasshopper (Aiolopus thalassinus)
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  Green milkweed locust (Phymateus viridipes)
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  Splendid cone-headed grasshopper (Truxalis nasuta)
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  Two-spotted cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus)
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  Cape thermometer cricket (Oecanthus capensis)
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  Two-coloured stick grasshopper (Acrida bicolor)
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  Tobacco cricket (Brachytrupes membranaceus)
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  Lamenting grasshopper (Eyprepocnemis plorans)
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  Common house cricket (Acheta domesticus)
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  Vitticatantops humeralis
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  Northern mole cricket (Neocurtilla hexadactyla)
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  Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria)
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  Brown armored corn cricket (Acanthoplus discoidalis)
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  Brown‐spotted locust (Cyrtacanthacris tatarica)

Organizations

Locusts and grasshoppers are typically managed through a national plant protection system led by a country’s plant protection organization, ministry of agriculture, or equivalent biosecurity authority. They are often supported by specialized pest control branches, natural resource agencies, and regional bodies when outbreaks cross borders. These agencies are usually the first point of contact for surveillance, reporting, permits, quarantine decisions, and control operations. If the country belongs to one of the FAO locust commissions, those bodies provide a regional framework for early warning, field surveillance, information sharing, and coordinated response, helping countries align monitoring, contingency planning, and control actions across borders.

Organization name	Acronym	Website	Type	Focus	Geographic purview
Agri Northern Cape		View	Government	Management, Governance	South Africa
Agri SA		View	Government	Management	South Africa
Agricultural Research Council of South Africa	ARC	View	Government	Research	South Africa
Center for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa	CCARDESA	View	Non-governmental Organization	Management, Governance, Development	Botswana
Information Core for Southern African Migratory Pests	ICOSAMP	View	Other	Governance, Information Hub, Management, Education	Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
International Red Locust Control Organization for Central and Southern Africa	IRLCO CSA	[www.redlocust.org.zm/ View]	Intergovernmental Organization	Management, Governance, Funding	Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi
Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform	MAWLR	View	Government	Management	Namibia

Resources

Name	Species purview	Year published	Resource link	Descriptive keyword	Language	Geographic purview	Author
Analysis of historical outbreaks of the brown locust		2026	View	Nama Karoo, outbreak chronology, Historical, Outbreaks, Population dynamics, Geographic Information System (GIS), Management, Environmental assessment, Forecasting, Modeling	English	South Africa	Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, Roger Price
ARC-PHP brown locust fact sheet series		2024	View	Nama Karoo, Outbreaks, Population dynamics, Management, Ecology, Biology	English	South Africa	Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, Roger Price
ARC-PHP Southern African desert locust fact sheet series		2024	View	Nama Karoo, Outbreaks, Population dynamics, Management, Ecology, Biology	English	South Africa	Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, Roger Price
Desert locust technical series				History, Management, Set	English, French, Arabic	Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Mauritania, Madagascar, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Senegal, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Niger, Mali	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Regional appeal to contain the African Migratory Locust October 2020		2020	View	Report, Outbreaks, Locust outbreaks, Locusts, Summary, Monitoring, Forecasting, Decision making, Management, Integrated pest management, After action review, Emergency appeal	English	Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Locust Pesticide Referee Group
Workshop on Research Priorities for Migrant Pests of Agriculture in Southern Africa		1999	View	Migration, Agriculture, Pests, Pesticide management, Food security, Biological control, Forecasting, Information hub	English	South Africa

Projects

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