Dissosteira longipennis

Dissosteira longipennis, the high plains locust, is a species of band-winged grasshopper in the family Acrididae.^[2][3][4][5] It is found in North America.^[2][6] During the 1930s, it formed enormous swarms and caused significant damage to crops in the western United States,^[7] but it is now very rare and has not swarmed since. However rare, the species is still extant,^[8] unlike the Rocky Mountain locust, the only other species of locust found in North America.

Dissosteira longipennis
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Caelifera
Family:	Acrididae
Tribe:	Trimerotropini
Genus:	Dissosteira
Species:	D. longipennis
Binomial name
Dissosteira longipennis (Thomas, 1872)