About Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas, 1872)
Dissosteira longipennis, commonly known as the high plains locust, is a band-winged grasshopper species that belongs to the family Acrididae. This species is native to North America. In the 1930s, it formed extremely large swarms that caused major damage to crops across the western United States. Today, the species is very rare, and it has not formed any swarms since that period. Despite its rarity, D. longipennis is still an extant species. This makes it different from the Rocky Mountain locust, which is the only other locust species historically found in North America.
