page_title: Bandwing
section_title: Tribe Locustini
hierarchical_section_title: Bandwing / Tribes and genera / Tribe Locustini
caption_attribution_description: English: Female Locusta migratoria migratorioides near Aeterba, Red Sea coast, Sudan.
context_page_description: Bandwings, or band-winged grasshoppers are the subfamily Oedipodinae of grasshoppers classified under the family Acrididae. They have a worldwide distribution and were originally elevated to full family status as the Oedipodidae. Many species primarily inhabit xeric weedy fields, and some are considered to be important locusts:
  Locusta migratoria: the migratory locust,
  Chortoicetes terminifera: the Australian plague locust.
  Locustana pardalina the brown locust
  These grasshoppers often have colorful hindwings that may be yellow or red and edged with black. Others have black hindwings with pale edges, and a few species have clear hindwings. The arolium is extremely small or absent.
context_section_description: Auth. Kirby, 1825; distribution: Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia
  Brunnerella Saussure, 1888
  Chifanicus Benediktov, 2001
  Gastrimargus Saussure, 1884
  Grammoscapha Uvarov, 1942
  Locusta Linnaeus, 1758 (monotypic)
  Locustana Uvarov, 1921
  Oedaleus Fieber, 1853
  Psophus Fieber, 1853 - monotypic Psophus stridulus
  Pternoscirta Saussure, 1884
  Ptetica Saussure, 1884
  Pyrgodera Fischer von Waldheim, 1846
  Scintharista Saussure, 1884
caption: Locusta migratoria migratorioides female (solitary)
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