Brown-spotted locust
Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
The brown-spotted locust is a grasshopper with brown spots. It belongs to a group called bird grasshoppers. Like all grasshoppers, it can make huge jumps with its strong back legs.
Lives in
Africa and southern Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a plant-eater.
What does it eat?
Like other grasshoppers, it eats plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Brown-spotted locust about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It was named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, the scientist who started giving animals their two-part scientific names.
2
There are two kinds of it, called subspecies. One is named after Abyssinia, the old name for Ethiopia.
3
It lives in warm parts of Africa and southern Asia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Brown-spotted locust
?Where does the brown-spotted locust live?
In Africa and in southern Asia.
?What does the brown-spotted locust eat?
Plants, like other grasshoppers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Acrididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Acrididae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cyrtacanthacris tatarica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Hans Hillewaert. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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