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:
Maurice Auguste Régimbart was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, particularly Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae and Hydrophilidae. Regimbart worked on expedition material collected mainly from French, Italian and Belgian colonies. He was a member of the Société entomologique de France.
Elzéar Emmanuel Arène Abeille de Perrin was a French entomologist.
Forficula pubescens is a species of earwig.
The African rice grasshopper, Hieroglyphus daganensis is a medium-sized grasshopper species found in the Sahel region. Although not called a locust in English, this species shows gregarious behaviour and some morphological change on crowding and may become a moderately important pest species for small-holder farmers in the region.
Calliptamus siciliae, commonly known as the pygmy pincer grasshopper, is a species of short-horned grasshoppers belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Calliptaminae.
Barbitistes obtusus, common name Southern Saw-tailed Bush-cricket or Alpine Saw Bush-cricket, is a species of katydids crickets in family Phaneropteridae subfamily Phaneropterinae.
Brachytrupes megacephalus is a species of cricket in the family Gryllidae.
Phymateus aegrotus, the East African Bush Locusts, is a locust in the family Pyrgomorphidae.
Anacridium moestum, the camouflaged tree locust, is a species of grasshopper belonging to the family Acrididae, that is native to Africa south of the equator. It is similar in appearance to the Southern African desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria subsp. flavicentris. It is likewise brownish, large and slender, but mostly arboreal in its habits.
Xiphoceriana atrox is a species of grasshoppers belonging to the family Pamphagidae.
Charles Marquet was a French naturalist who was born in Beziers in 1820 and died in Toulouse in 1900. He was especially active in the fields of entomology, ornithology and herpetology. He was employed at the Compagnie des Canons du Midi and he was a founder member of the Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse in 1866.
The Cyrtacanthacridinae are a subfamily of Orthoptera: Caelifera in the family Acrididae. They are sometimes referred-to as bird locusts, criquets voyageurs in French-speaking Africa, and Knarrschrecken in German.
Emil Frey-Gessner was a Swiss entomologist. At first Emil Frey-Gessner studied mechanical engineering and was until 1865 technical director in the Frey-Gessner family cotton mill.Later he studied natural sciences at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich and became a District Teacher in Brugg then in the Canton of Aarau. From 1872 he was conservator of the entomological collections at the new museum of Geneva University. He was Dr. hc of the University of Geneva.
Hippiscus is a genus of band-winged grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. There is only one described species in the genus, Hippiscus ocelote from North America.
Eyprepocnemis is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae with species found in Africa, Southern Europe through to tropical Asia.
Shirakiacris is an Asian genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Eyprepocnemidinae and the tribe Eyprepocnemidini. Its recorded distribution includes: southern and eastern China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.
Phymateus karschi is a locust in the family Pyrgomorphidae.
Gomphoceridius is a monotypic genus of grasshoppers containing the species Gomphoceridius brevipennis and placed in the subfamily Gomphocerinae, tribe Gomphocerini.
Ephippiger terrestris, common name Alpine saddle-backed bush-cricket, is a bush cricket species belonging to the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Bradyporinae.
