Locusta migratoria
Artist Kawahara Keiga (1786–)
Date artwork between 1823 and 1829
Country Japan
Locality Nagasaki
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The migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) is the most widespread locust species of the family Acrididae. Locusta migratoria occurs throughout Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Many other species of grasshopper with gregarious and possibly migratory behaviour are referred to as 'locusts' in the vernacular, including the widely distributed desert locust.

Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oedipodinae
Tribe: Locustini
Genus: Locusta
Species: Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
- Acridium migratorium
- Acridium plorans
- Pachytylus australis (Saussure, 1884)
- Pachytylus migratorius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pachytylus migratorioides (Fairmaire & L.J. Reiche, 1849)