Schistocerca gregaria Inhabits
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(Desert Locust)
Diagnosis: It can easily be identified by its large size; grey-brownish colour; large, irregular spots on tegmina; blunt and slightly bent prosternal process; constricted and saddle-shaped pronotum; bilobate male subgenital plate; wide, flat and blunt cerci.
Habitats: This species inhabits a broad belt of arid and semi-arid land. Preferred oviposition sites are in sandy soils and perennial grasses, herbs and shrubs. It is a mixed feeder, damaging a very wide variety of cultivated and non-cultivated crops. Damage has been reported from various countries including Libya. A few specimens were collected from sandy localities surrounded by grasses, herbs and shrubs.
Material examined: Al Shati region: Idri, 1 ♂, on alfalfa, 13.iv.1993; Qattah, 1 ♀, on grass, 15.xii.1992; Qirah, 2 ♀, on alfalfa, 12.xi.1992; Wanzarik, 1 ♂, on barley, 13.iv.1993. Ghat region: Al Barkat, 3 ♂, 2 ♀, on alfalfa & barley, 19.vii.1995; Ghat, 5 ♀, on wheat, 18.vii.1995. Murzuk region: Al Qatrun, 4 ♂, 2 ♀, on alfalfa & Millet, 15.v.1993; Ed Disah, 2 ♀, on alfalfa, 27.iv.1993. Sebha region: Samnu, 2 ♂, 3 ♀, on alfalfa & grass, 18.v.1994; Sebha, 3 ♂, 1 ♀, on barley & grass, 8.vi.1995; Tamanhent, 3 ♀, on great millet, 18.v.1995.
Localities: Cyrenaica: Augila, Barca, Bengasi, Fueihat, Gariunes, Gebel Hausah, Gialo, Giardaba, Oasi di Giarabub, Haret el hafun, Kufra, Rebiana, Zawia Mechili; Tripolitania: Gharian el Garbia, Misurata,Uadi Marsit; Fezzan: Al Qatrun, Idri, Qatta, Qirah, Ed Disah, Ghat, Samnu, Sebha, Serdeles, Tamanhent, Tibesti, Wanzarik.
Distribution: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Sahara, Hoggar, Tibesti, Rio de Oro, Senegal, Southern region of Sahara and Sudan South to Kenya, Sinai Peninsula, Togo, N. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Somaliland, Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Eritrea, Ascension Is., Canary Is., Azores, Cape verde, Madeira, Arabia, Southern Iran, Western Pakistan, Desert region of North-Western India, Transcaucasis, S.W. Asia,MiddleAsia.
Remarks: This species is commonly known as desert Locust. It is distributed throughout Africa. Earlier recorded from different parts of Libya by Rizzardi (1896), Werner (1908), I. Bolivar(1915), Ghigi (1913), Giglio-Tos (1923), Zanon (1924), Capra (1929), Salfi (1930a, 1934), Shaw (1933) and Jannone (1938). This species was reported from Fezzan by Salfi (1935a) and Ajaili et al. (1989).
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- 1992-11-12 , 1992-12-15 , 1993-04-13 , 1993-04-27 , 1993-05-15 , 1994-05-18 , 1995-05-18 , 1995-06-08 , 1995-07-18 , 1995-07-19
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- 1992-11-12 , 1992-12-15 , 1993-04-13 , 1993-04-27 , 1993-05-15 , 1994-05-18 , 1995-05-18 , 1995-06-08 , 1995-07-18 , 1995-07-19
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- Baissogryllidae
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- Schistocerca
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- gregaria
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- Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal, 1775) sec. Usmani, 2008
References
- Rizzardi, U. (1896) Contributo alla fauna Tripolitana. Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 28, 18.
- Werner, F. (1908) Zur kenntniss der Orthopteren-fauna von Tripolis und Barka, Nach der sammlung von Dr. Bruno Klaptocz im Jahre 1906. Zoologische Jahrbucher Systematik, 27, 83 - 143; 123, 363 - 404.
- Bolivar, I. (1915) Extension de la fauna paleartica en Marruecos. Trab Museo Ciencias Naturales Madrid (Series Zoologie), no. 10, 83 pp.
- Ghigi, A. (1913) Materiali per lo studio della fauna libica. Memoirs of the Royal Accademia Bologna, (6) 10, 261 - 2, 273 - 4.
- Giglio-Tos, F. (1923) Missione Zoologica Dr. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Bolletino Museo Zoologia Anatomia Comparee Torino, 38 (4), 1 - 7.
- Zanon, V. (1924) Contributo alla conoscenza della fauna entomologica della Cirenaica. Ortotteri di Bengasi. Memoirs of the Accademia Nuovi Lincei, (2) 7, 229 - 249.
- Capra, F. (1929) Risultati Zoologici della Missione inviata dalla R. Societa geografica italiana per 1 esplorazione dell' oasi di Giarabub (1926 - 7). Ortotteri e Dermatteri. Annal idel Museo Storia naturale Genova, 53, 122 - 159.
- Salfi, M. (1930 a) I. caratteri dell' Ortotterofauna Cirenaica. Archives Zoologica (Italiana) Napoli, 14, 397 - 410.
- Salfi, M. (1934) Contribuzioni alla conoscenza degli ortotten libici. 6. Oothecaria e Saltatoria di cufra, e descrizione di stadi postembryonali di Platyptema gracilis Krauss. Anneli del Museo Zoologica Universita Napoli, 6 (14), 167 - 79 (1 - 12).
- Shaw, W. B. K. (1933) Insects and other Arthropods Collected by Major R. A. Bagnold's expedition to the Libyan Desert. Entomologist, 66, 174 - 177.
- Jannone, G. (1938) Primo Contributo alla conoscenza deli Ortotterofauna della Libia. Bolletino Laboratorie Z oologia Portici, 30 ,87 - 120.
- Salfi, M. (1935 a) Contribuzione alla conoscenza degli ortotteri libici. 7. Sull Ortotterofauna del Fezzan. (Missione Scortecci della R. Societa geografica Italiana). Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 74, 383 - 388.
- Ajaili, A. A., Usmani, M. K. & Furet, I. (1989) Survey of grasshoppers and locusts (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in Al Shati, Libya. Indian Journal of Systematic Entomology, 6 (1), 1 - 17.