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Who is a flying insects move in swarms and cause great destruction to vegetation?
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They are common called locusts ( family Acrididae.) Some species are
- Desert Locust is Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal).
- African Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria migratorioides) - Africa;
- Oriental Migratory Locust (Locusta migratoria manilensis) - South-East Asia;
- Red Locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata) - Eastern Africa;
- Brown Locust (Locustana pardalina) - Southern Africa;
- Italian Locust (Calliptamus italicus), from Western Europe to Central Asia;
- Moroccan Locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus) - North-West Africa to Asia;
- Bombay Locust (Nomadacris succincta) - South-West to South-East Asia;
- Australian Plague Locust (Chortoicetes terminifera) - Australia;
- Tree Locusts (Anacridium sp.) - Africa, Mediterranean, Near East.
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